In class over week 3 we discussed the socialization aspects of the sport world. A major part of it is having role models, from parents, friends, professional athletes and coaches. For young athletes all these role models affect their lives in lots of different ways like what they play and how they perform. Having role models is great and a positive thing helping and guiding athletes throughout their careers in the sport world. Within the article I have read though we don’t see the positive light of having them.
The target of the article was viewed as a role model for being a coach and mentor to his players as well as athletes coming to camps. Jerry Sandusky was a former assistant coach for Penn State football under Joe Paterno. Sandusky retired in 1999 after the Alamo Bowl but still helped with youth camps on campus up until recently. Reading the Jerry Sandusky Trial: Ex-Penn State Coach Seeks Delay In Child Sex-Abuse Case is about the accusations of him sexual abusing some of the young athletes at the camps. Over a fifteen-year period Sandusky has 52 criminal charges for 10 different boys. His lawyer has asked to delay the trial saying he isn’t prepared well enough. Single-handedly destroying Penn State’s reputation and dynasty as a collegiate football franchise within being accused. Joe Paterno was forced into retirement and the school itself has been painted black and tainted forever. An awful act should be enforced with the highest charges and punishment but within the media it went above and beyond targeting people that shouldn’t have got as much heat as they did. Everyone within had something to do with it but the media brought Paterno into the spotlight where I felt they lost track of Sandusky the real target. Everyone’s heart goes out to the victims and their families and within the trial we are on their sides hoping for the punishment to fit the crime. 
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