N.O.W and Coach Paterno
Every now and again a story comes along that really burns your
backside and recently in the news there's been talk about the
National Organization for Women making a huge deal about some
words coach Paterno of Penn State said during a press conference
concerning a Florida State football player and the situation the
player finds himself in concerning allegations a woman has made
against him.
The FSU player Nicholson who is a very good player was held out
of the bowl game between PSU and FSU over allegations that he
was involved in some sort of situation with a woman.
Paterno was asked about it during a press conference and Paterno
who is always a gentleman of good nature and sense basically
said it's tough out there in the world and you have to be
careful and kids have to be smart and know who they're getting
involved with and so on and so forth.
The coach was not accusing Nicholson and he was not accusing
this woman of anything in my mind he was merely stating the
situation of the world today and the need to be careful in it.
The womans organization took a hissy fit and asked for the coach
to be removed after all these wonderful years of service and
after all these years of looking after kids and making sure they
graduated and got good grades because I suppose they think he
wasn't sympathetic enough to this woman who is making the
accusations against this player.
My feeling on this is when did we on this planet become guilty
until proven innocent? In this country we are supposed to be
innocent until proven guilty. I am wondering really why
Nicholson of FSU was not allowed to play and what was the basis
for not allowing him to play? Anyone can make an accusation
against someone of anything but until there is proof of a crime
an allegation is just an allegation.
Let's say it turns out Nicholson is indeed innocent then can he
sue this woman and turn back time to play in the biggest college
game of his life? He'll get nothing and still miss the biggest
college game of his career because someone alledged something
which in my mind is not fair in the least.
Don't get me wrong if indeed evidence comes forward to find
Nicholson did do something then I feel for this girl and her
family but let's remember that it's innocent until proven guilty
folks and lets not bring out the firing squad when good coaches
and good men give an opinion.
Let's see the evidence and have it bring out the facts first
before we make our decisions on Nicholson and we certainly
should not involve a great coach and a great man in this
nonsense for making a comment.
I'm disappointed that a national organization would be so quick
to jump on an innocent man and a good coach and role model over
his comments that to me seemed fine. The National Organization
for Women or NOW as they are known should be ashamed really and
should get facts on cases and get evidence before they send out
the axe man.