Why JoePa's kid can't vouch for what he knew in 1976 bruh! "Nino Brown"

"That's my story and I'm stickin' to it bruh!" 

James E. Faust once said, "Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving." Groucho Marx gave it to us like this, "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." Then Thomas Jefferson hit a boy in the dome when he spit, "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." 

Well playas...now boyz are finally startin' to admit that JoePa knew more than boyz gave him credit for knowin' about the Sandusky foolishness. A judge says insurers in litigation with Penn State claim that a young boy told Joe Paterno back in 1976 that he had been molested by Jerry Sandusky. The order by the Philadelphia judge also cites that separate reports in 1987 and 1988 of other unnamed assistant football coaches allegedly witnessin' this foolishness! What it says is they witnessed  "inappropriate contact between Sandusky and unidentified children." Then early Friday morning JoePa's son, Scott, jumped out of the birthday cake and tweeted, "it would be great if everyone waited to see the substance of the allegation before they assume it's true. Because it's not."

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!  First of all playboy, JoePa's kid was a freakin' child in 1976! So he doesn't know what his old man knew! So to pop off and start vouchin' for him is crazy. When you're a kid you don't even know what kind man your old man is.

I told you boyz when all of this foolishness surfaced that JoePa knew EVERYTHING. Why? Because he was JoePA!! He ran the joint for more than 46 years. After all, he was the O.G. of Happy Valley! If it went down he would know about it because he was the most powerful dun on campus. He had more power than the governor of Pennsylvania bruh! Stop it!! You sound crazy tryin' to act like Joe knew nothin'!

Paterno coached with this cat for more than 30 years bruh! Do you realize how much time coaches spend together? They show up at the facility at 5 or 6am and are there until about midnight at the minimum of 6 days a week during the season! Not to mention the time spent recruitin' and foolin' around with spring ball etc. Joe knew this cat better than he knew his wife bruh!

 You don't think Sandusky said or did anything at some point over the years that would indicate that he was a freak? C'mon man! You've got co-workers that you've known less than a year that you wouldn't go to lunch with because they've got some crazy habits. Everybody on that staff knew he was a freak and knew what he'd been doin'. Stop it bruh!! Only a sucka needed emails or a criminal investigation to confirm that! Selfish Ambition on everyone's part in that football program endangered those kids! Therefore, they all should have been fired and arrested for bein' an accomplice to a crime like I said when the joint first hit the news years ago.

"JoePa was my guy!"

The Word of God says money is the root of all evil! Well, selfishness isn't too far behind! The fact that JoePa, the grad assistant at the time, Mike McQueary, and others knew about the actions of the now convicted Sandusky and did absolutely nothin' is sickenin'. So if the dun knew about this foolishness from 2000 you knew he knew about whatever was poppin' off in 1976!

Let me put it where the goats can get it. Selfish ambition was at the root for everyone involved. The grad assistant who the witnessed Sandusky in the shower with the 10 year old child was concerned more about his job and his ability to move up than he was the youngster being violated. It obviously worked to his advantage because 9 years later he had become the wide receiver coach at Penn State.

JoePa was more concerned about his legacy and his ability break the all-time wins mark than he was about savin' someone's kid from his homeboy. Paul says in Philippians 2:3, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.” In my standard hood vernacular, "You gotta be concerned about other folks bruh and not just about winnin' football games!"

 An individual with morals would never have swept a situation like this under the rug and kept in movin' but the legendary Joe Paterno did. Say what you want about the hood but it even operates with a code. Kids are off limits to whatever crime you decide to commit. If or when a kid is involved there is swift street justice because the code has been violated. Either the streets will handle it and more often than not they will or the perpetrator will be turned in. That is the only time snitchin' is permissible in the ghetto! If thugs in the street can live by that code why couldn't a so-called civilized legend of college football do the same? Maybe because he wasn't so civilized huh?

I've got more respect for the gangsta's that I grew up with in the G than I do for JoePa's legacy at this point. Remember when he was outside of his house being cheered on and lovin' it like he'd just won the national title when they were about to fired him? Any decent human being would have come out and told the crowd to leave because this is completely inappropriate behavior at a time like this. Not JoePa though bruh! He was enjoyin' every minute of the attention. That tells you everything you need to know him.

JoePa knew that his boy was a freak and his kid can't possibly vouch for him not knowin' something 40 freakin' years ago. Stop me when I start lyin'!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Spit: verb - to say
2) Dun: noun - the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It's whoever I'm talkin' about and it's non-gender specific.
3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase - to explain it in the simplest of terms.
4) The G: noun - Gary, Indiana

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Poison

"This joint has the plague right now!"

In 1990 Bell, Biv, Devoe (BBD) released the hot single "Poison" and folks went crazy. They were warning boyz of falling in love with the signature line, "never trust a big butt and a smile cuz that girl is poison." They also sampled the old Boogie Down Productions joint "Jimmy" with "the J, the I, the M, the M, the Y, the Jimmy!" To let cats know to protect themselves in the process. The 1st law of nature is self preservation and if you don't look out for yourself who will bruh?

I'm blown away that these cats at Penn State are vowing to stay. That joint has the plague right now and these guys are trying to stay? Now I completely get why a senior that is on pace to graduate or is already starting and doesn't want to risk leaving and not playing somewhere else. I get that. However, the highly productive underclassman or those that aren't playing anyway like those cats that were red-shirted last year that still has 3 or 4 years of eligibility left should be in the wind by now bruh.

I saw where their top rated pocket passer in the ESPN Top 150, Christian Hackenberg and several others in the recruiting class of 2013, have decided to remain commented to the Nittany Lions. These cats are crazy. That's like getting in the car with some guys that you KNOW are ridin' dirty that are going to the suburbs to hang out.

Why remain committed to a joint that can't recruit at the same level because of scholarship reductions. They can't go to a bowl, can't compete for a Big Ten title or national title, which they weren't going to do even if they weren't on probation but it's the principal. Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! You know that going on the road (playing away games) this year will be brutal. Y'all already know that the opposing fans are going to be off the chain. They're going to be egging the Penn State buses as they roll into town. They'll have all kinds of signs calling them every derogatory name in the book as they jog onto the field etc. It's not worth it bruh!

Dude it's going to be a mess and why would you want to voluntarily go through that? The NCAA gave you a pass to bounce without penalty. That means that you can transfer without having to sit out this year. So take advantage of the opportunity!

I know who isn't crazy though, Silas Redd! Penn State's leading rusher from a year ago that ran for over 1,200 yards is still making moves. Ole boy has already sat down with Lane Kiffen from USC in Happy Valley and has taken a trip to LA to check the joint out. While no decision has been made officially y'all already know a decision has been made bruh! It's Hollywood! When he got off of the plane they were bumpin' that old Bootsy Collins "Hollywood Squares" for him. I can hear it now "Um L.A. Californ-I-A the city of angels, Hollywood!"

USC has their entire offensive line coming back not to mention that they're ranked #1 going into the season. Whereas, Penn State has only 1 returning starter on the O-line. The weather is a whole lot better than it is in Happy Valley and the most important piece in the entire equation bruh, the girls just look better in LA. Don't get mad at me folks. I just trying to get you to think like a 21 year old kid. There is no reason on earth for Silas Red to be in Pennsylvania this season.

I also saw where junior quarterback Rob Bolden visited LSU over the weekend too. Keep in mind that both of their QB's were seniors last year so he's gone too!!! Not to mention that the Tigers are the 2nd ranked team in the country! Again you gotta be on something to stay at Penn State. The only reason that companies require a college degree is because by having the college experience you at least have learned how to think in the process. Most companies could care less what the degree is in. They just want to see it because it is evidence that you were at least disciplined enough to make decent enough decisions to graduate. So if these cats have been in school for 2 or 3 years they should be able to make good decisions.

Life is a thinking man's game. Not a game where you should be loyal to a university that put everybody in harms way. A university that didn't care about the well being of children and put more stake into winning football games. Now that you have an opportunity to bounce you can't stick around because if you do you're not listening to my boyz BBD. You're trusting a big butt and a smile bruh and that joint has been sinking ships and destroying kingdoms since the beginning of time bruh! That "girl" is Poison!

Now I will say this, because people in the state of Pennsylvania are so loyal to Penn State they won't have such a hard time bouncing back. 

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Jay Graves

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"Johnny Hustle"

Mark Emmert is hustling anybody willing to listen to him bruh!"

Sometimes people say things that make absolutely no sense and most people listening to those same words never dispute the foolishness of them. When NCAA president Mark Emmert handed out the sanctions to Penn State on Monday I really had no problem with the way he handled it. I mean, it could have been done differently but hey, what did you expect? Penn State excepted the Freeh report and didn't dispute the joint. So why should the NCAA have wasted more time and money doing another investigation? I realize that they were to some degree waaaaay out of jurisdiction because it was a criminal case and that it should have been handled in the courts but whatever bruh.

 My problem with Emmert was when he made the asinine comments that he wanted to make sure that people don't ever put football ahead of academics on colleges campuses again. Say what? When he said that most people didn't blink an eye and agreed with him without even thinking about it. I'm sorry folks, football is the engine that pulls the entire train on big time college campuses. See most people live in the world of what should be but I live in the world of what is. If Emmert really wanted to live by his words then let's go back to the days when college football games cost $5 to get in the joint and get rid of all of the big time TV and merchandising contracts that these schools sign. Not to mention the video game licensing agreements as well.

Let's have a true playoff in the FBS and get rid of the BCS system or the bowl structure that makes these schools a fortune every year. That way we can make it all about the true reason that these kids are in school and that is to get an education according to you. Most folks don't even realize that the BCS isn't even apart of the NCAA but they allow it to function because of the amount of bread that it generates. If you visit the NCAA Hall of Champions in Indy today you won't see a banner hanging for Alabama winning the title in 2011 because the NCAA doesn't acknowledge it. However, they don't have a problem with the $17 million that the BCS pays out to the schools for playing in the freaking games or all the ancillary bread that is generated during the bowl season. I know some of you cats thought that I was some uneducated schmuck that dropped out of school and decided to write a blog but don't let the lingo fool you! Try and keep up if you can bruh!

 If it's about academics how about banning ESPN College Game Day from traveling around to campuses and hyping up the days events. Let's stop building bigger stadiums on these campuses and paying coaches $3 & $4 million dollars a year and get the gym coach to lead the teams out on the field. Also let's get rid of March Madness while we're at during basketball season and tear up the $9 Billion dollars in contracts that the NCAA makes off of the joint. Stop allowing the schools to sell the student-athletes jerseys on campus if it's really about them getting an education bruh! 

The fact that Emmert even has a job says that it's been about more than the academics for decades. If it were only about the classroom there would be no reason to have an NCAA office in Indy. The schools could police themselves. Why? Because there would be nothing to police. However, when sports became big time business it ceased to be only about the education. Academics is a by-product of all of the foolishness for those that WANT to take advantage of it. I know Emmert didn't think that the darn near million dollars a year he was making while he was the President at the University of Washington was generated by some cat in the chemistry department. If academics were more important than sports he wouldn't be making $1.6 million as the president of the NCAA! 

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Ain't this the same cat that fired Ty Willingham at Washington for not winning enough football games even though he cleaned up the program? 

Stop running game on naive folks that will jump up and agree with anything that SOUNDS good. Just because the professor and the coach work at the same university doesn't mean that they live in the same world. When the professor lectures on Friday there won't be 90,000 people paying an average of $65.00 per ticket to see him or her do their job. It also won't be televised and the final exam doesn't pay the school $17 million(BCS bowl win or lose) at the end of the semester. They won't be charging $35 to park in front of the chemistry building either. So stop the madness bruh!

 You're trying to hustle me and I'm not in the mood for a hustle today. I can take the hustle better from the cat at the car wash in the hood because I'm expecting it. I can't take it from a clown in a suit because it's insulting to my hood instincts for you to think you've got more game than I do. I've been highly trained on dissecting the hustle and a cat in a suit from the suburbs doesn't pass the hustlers test bruh. 

People don't spend money at the local restaurants and hotels all weekend and buy big ticket items in the bookstore for academic purposes. Football and basketball are both  multi-million dollar businesses on these campuses and they build all of the buildings and help to increase student enrollment every year. Don't think for one minute that all of the new freshman enrolling at Alabama & Kentucky this fall are showing up because they liked the classrooms bruh!

 Studies have shown that when a school has a championship sports program the following year freshman enrollment goes up by 30%. So the next time you wanna blow smoke, make sure you know who you're talking to. Because everybody listening to you ain't crazy and I'm definitely not falling for the Oakey Doke from a cat named Mark Emmert. Maybe if his name was Lil' Elbow or Potta Man & nem or something like that but not from a cat named Mark bruh!

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Jay Graves
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The Come Up!

"The Penn State coaching staff is not playing right now bruh!"

When the Godfather calls a meeting with the under-bosses it never ends well. When the Carter got raided and Nino Brown called a meeting with the CMB, boyz were scared to death. Nino walked in with his sword in one hand and the leash of his rottweiler in the other. As he walked around the room he grabbed random cats by the neck looking for the person to blame for his empire going up in smoke. When he finally put the sword through the Kareem Akbar's hand on the table the rest of the CMB breathed a sye of relief.

Well...when the NCAA walked into the joint on Monday the only cats sitting around the table were Penn State. Once the sword was drawn and it hit the table it was devastating. He got off into their pockets for $60 million, hit them with a 4 year bowl ban, vacated all wins from 1998 to 2011(111 wins in all) and they must reduce 10 initial and then 20 scholarships a year over the next 4 years.

However, Nino did do the current players a solid because he knew that they had nothing to do with this foolishness. So they all were given the opportunity to transfer immediately to other FBS schools without penalty. That means that they could bounce without having to sit out the normal year before they're eligible to play again.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Y'all know that joint looked like the LA Riots or Hurricane Katrina within 20 minutes of that announcement. Boyz were literally running down the street with football players under their arms all morning long bruh! I saw Urban Meyer pull up with Barry the Buckeye in an Ice Cream truck trying to lure cats to Columbus! Bob Stoops showed up in the Sooner Schooner itself with Boomer and Sooner bumpin' that DJ Khaled "All I do is win!" joint as loud as he could. He started loading boyz up like the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889.

 Then ole Nick Saban pulled up in the Red Escalade with white interior sitting on 26's with Big Al riding shotgun bumpin' that "Sweet Home Alabama" with the national title game playing on the TV's in the head rests! He was talking mad noise pulling an empty U-haul only for those cats with the skillz to play in Tuscaloosa. Then Les Miles completely shout the joint down when he pulled up with the "Hat" cocked gangsta left with Mike the Tiger lounged in the back seat bumpin' that Cashin' Out joint hollerin' at the kittens walking down the street. Ole Les, on the other hand, was talking like he's got a mouth full of bubblicious as usual. While the new Penn State coaching staff was riding through campus playing that Chief Keef "I Don't Like!" as they watched their players role out like Ludacris.  

Hey when Nino said that cats could immediately bounce they weren't playing around. They were loading boyz up and calling their parents from the highway. It was like, "Hey Mrs So & So we've got your son and we're headed to Columbus, Ann Arbor, Baton Rouge, Austin, Norman, Gainsville etc but he'll be just fine. Whatever he forgot in State College we'll pull a P. Diddy and buy it when we get there. Don't trip cuz he's in good hands! He'll call you in a few days and tell Big Momma not to worry either. "

The only cats that should stay are those guys that are senior starters or those that are 2nd or 3rd on the depth chart that could start as a result of boyz leaving that wouldn't play anywhere else. Otherwise, the dorm should look like a drug raid this morning bruh! Drawers pulled open and stuff thrown everywhere as cats were diving out of the windows to get out of town. 

Most people looked at the sanctions as the Death Penalty saying that they were suddenly reduced to SMU and would be done for at least 25 years but I completely disagree. First of all, SMU is a small private school in Dallas, Texas that was only good in 1923 &' 26, in '31 & '35 and when Doak Walker was a beast from '47 to '48. In the early '80's they picked up the Death Penalty because they were crazy disrespectful to the Godfather that had warned them multiple times about paying boyz. That's why they were able to have the "Pony Express" Eric Dickerson and Craig James. They've never recovered because they've had to compete with Texas and Oklahoma not to mention the other football schools in the state to get players and their academic requirements are killing them. Just think what that type of punishment would have done to Notre Dame in the '70's and '80's bruh! Well that's SMU. It's already hard enough to recruit because of academics.

 Penn State, on the other hand, doesn't have that same geographical and academic problem. Let's keep it real! It's been a mediocre program for the past 20 years anyway. Also, once they get off of probation in 5 years they'll still have the loyalty of all of the delusional fans that are still supporting Joe Paterno even though he's been proven to be dirty. Those duns have kids. In the Pennsylvania they've got absolutely no competition in the recruiting game like SMU has had over the years. So in my opinion, they could be back to Penn State in less than 10 if they do it right. 

 They only have to get back to being a mediocre program to be back bruh! It's not like they have to be a top 10 joint because they weren't in the first place. They just have to get back to being  4th or 5th in the Big Ten! There's only 2 and half teams in the conference anyway; Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin makes up the half of the joint. It's not like they're playing in the SEC or the the Southwestern Conference like SMU was at the time of the Death Penalty. 

Sure, they been reduced to Western Michigan overnight but the secret weapon to getting the same caliber  players to come back to Happy Valley is Phil Knight bruh! All they have to do is pull an Oregon! Get rid of those hideous Joe Paterno practice uniforms that they've worn for years and put the Swag Sauce into them joints. Get rid of everything that reminds people of JoePa so start with the uniforms. Put together 50 different uniform combo's with glow in the dark helmets and pants with matching shoes and gloves and boyz will come running to play for the Nittany Lions again.

 There's too much brand loyalty in Pennsylvania for them not to. Don't tell me they won't because they showed up in Eugene when they were garbage and had absolutely no history of winning. Who else reading this joint knew that Ahmad Rashard went to Oregon until they just recently started winning bruh? Put the shine and some spice on those uniforms and kids will show up. Trust me, I've got a 15 year old and these kids now days are different!  Stop me when I start lying bruh!

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Jay Graves
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The Sore Finger!

"Raise your hand if you had these boyz fooled too!"

I'm blown away by the amount of people that keep saying Joe Paterno had a lapse in judgement when he decided not to turn in his boy Jerry Sandusky more than 30 years ago. Yes, 30 years because it was his boy and there are now reports that there are victims that date back to the '70's bruh! If that's "ya man" then you know what he's into.

 First of all, let's define what a lapse in judgement is. A lapse in judgement is getting in the ride with some cats that you KNOW are shady to go to a party. When they pull over to get something from the liquor store they tell you to stay in the car. The lapse in judgement is not realizing that they were inside robbing the joint all along. You knew nothing about what was going down but got caught up with the wrong crew and you are now doing 3 to 5 for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's a lapse in judgement patna!

To have a homeboy that is a pedophile for more than 30 years and know about his activities isn't a lapse in judgement. It's called being an accessory to the crime. Stop sugar coating what this clown Joe Paterno really was. He was a cat that portrayed one image in public but was an evil sick individual in private. Why, because he knew that his boy was a freak and decided that winning ball games was more important!

I wrote a crazy Hot Joint entitled "Nino Brown" a month ago explaining to boyz how JoePa was the Kingpin of the streets at Penn State and that nothing moved without his knowledge. He controlled everything in town and he had the power to save those kids and decided not to. That's real talk bruh!

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! The statue of Joe Paterno should be taken down because he was a fraud. It no longer represents what it was meant to represent. I'm trippin' off of the amount of former players that are coming to Joe's side in support of him. It's almost like the woman who sells out her  kid for the love of her husband or boy friend that was clearly guilty of molesting her child but she doesn't care. All she wants is her man and is willing to ignore the safety of her child to keep him. Stop me when I start lying bruh!

It doesn't matter that Joe taught you many valuable things during your experience at Penn State. He's also taught you that he was fake as a 3 dollar bill too. He taught you that he was selfish, that he cared nothing about the well-being of children and that winning football games was more important than being a moral human being.

I've been saying for at least 10 years that JoePa should have been fired because he was doing a terrible job of coaching. This freaking guy didn't know a thing about what was going on on the field. How do you coach a game without even knowing the game plan? Sure, I realize that head coaches have staffs that handle all of that but Joe couldn't absorb the briefings.  He knew that the game had passed him by but he was the Kingpin and no one connected to the school had the "package" to step to him like a G and fire him. Even in the streets the Kingpin gets removed when the game has passed him by. Once he starts slippin' the young cat on the come up takes him out. That's "The Streets 101" bruh!

So now you've got this situation on your hands because a new coaching staff would have asked someone who the guy is that keeps bringing boys to the facility? Some ole timer would have said, "That's JoePa's boy and he's got carte blanche around here." The new coach would have said, Not anymore. I'm the G around here now and that looks shady. Get rid of him and I don't ever want to see him in my joint again!" Now Sandusky would have been just some former coach that was a freak on his own. The school would be free and clear of all foolishness because Joe Paterno was not in charge when the joint hit the fan!

That's all it would have taken bruh! However, because Penn State had no one walking around with a large enough "package" they let JoePa have what you keep calling a lapse in judgement. Now the program that he so called was protecting is in jeopardy of being shut down anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if the NCAA buried the joint because of a lack of institutional control or in what so many Penn State supporters called "A lapse in judgement."

The unfortunate thing about it all is that the players will suffer the most. Screw the fans because they allowed JoePa to stick around for way too long. There should have been an outcry years ago because this cat was inadequate. They new that he and his staff were terrible for years but they got caught up in the JoePa hype. They haven't beaten a top 5 team in 12 years.  Let's keep it real again or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Stop calling this cat the winningest coach of all-time. Did he really win? He coached for 46 years and won 409 games. That sounds good on the surface until you do the math!

If you coach for 46 years and win 409 games that's only winning 8 games a year. That's mediocre bruh! That's like ole boy Joe Tiller coaching at Purdue when they were going to the Alamo and Sun Bowls every year. If Tiller had coached at Purdue for 46 years we wouldn't be calling him the winningest coach of all-time or just the oldest?

Don't call a cat the best or winningest coach that only won 2 national titles in 46 years or only 3 Big Ten Titles in 22 years. When Urban Myer has won 2 national titles (2006 & 2008) at Florida within 3 years or Nick Saban that has won 3 national titles in 8 years at two different schools (2003 LSU & 2009 & 2011 Alabama). I could name several more coaches that have won multiple titles within 10 years and this cat won 2 in 46? Why are we even talking about him? Because all of the Penn State faithful drank way too much Kool Aid including those former players.

 Joe Paterno has ran so much game on them that they're delusional even to the facts that have surfaced over the past week in the Freeh Report. On some real talk, all you had to do was read the JayGravesReport in November when I wrote the Prophetically Hot Joint "The Penn State Nittany Ostriches" and you would have gotten all of that information then. I didn't need to read some former FBI agents waste of time report to know what was going on bruh! It was clear as a bell in November. That's the advantage of growing up in the hood. You can see what others can't because you're trained to look for it. 

It's like going to Vegas and walking out on the strip after dark. Most people only see the lights and the shine of Vegas. When I go out after dark on the strip I can't help but see all of the drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes because they stick out like a sore finger just like Joe Paterno did.

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Jay Graves
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"Nino Brown"

"I don't know what to tell you bruh!" That was his standard answer!

It's funny how most people can go through life and never see the 800lb elephant standing in the room. They always seem to be able to maneuver around it without ever bumping into it. Some things are so crystal clear that it can be scary. Growing up in Gary, In. taught me a very important lesson. Never trust what's on the surface bruh. It's always more to the story than what's being told. 
  

When the trustees at Penn State University finally got up the nerve to fire Joe Paterno amid the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal folks lost their minds. After all, he had essentially pulled a Kobe before there was ever a Kobe and had put Penn State on his back for more than six decades. He was the head coach there for 46 of those years so I could understand the attachment. However, when the scandal broke I told you boyz that JoePa knew everything! After all, he was the O.G. of Happy Valley, right? If it went down he would know about it because he ran the joint. This cat had more power than the governor of Pennsylvania bruh!


Last week CNN reported that the network had received four secret emails that showed an exchange between Penn State President Graham Spanier, V.P. Gary Schultz and A.D. Tim Curly. At least one of those emails indicates that Curly spoke with JoePa, the person who was really in charge, about his boy Sandusky. Check this joint out:

After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday, I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps. I am having trouble with going to everyone, but the person involved. I would be more comfortable meeting with the person…tell him about the information we received…tell him we are aware of the first situation. 


Now my problem with Joe is that he knew that his boy was a freak but set in the cut and let it continue to happen. Sandusky still hung out at the facility and brought youngsters with him. Last season they carried Joe off of the field after breaking the all-time NCAA wins record held by legendary Grambling State coach Eddie Robinson with 409 wins. In my opinion, he should have been carried off in handcuffs along with the President, the A.D., the VP and the GA that ran up on Sandusky abusing the kid in the shower. That's real talk bruh! I didn't need to see some janky emails to know that everybody knew what was going on. 

JoePa coached with this cat for more than 30 years bruh! Do you realize how much time coaches spend together? They show up at the facility at 5 or 6am and are there until about midnight at the minimum of 6 days a week during the season! Not to mention the time spent recruiting and fooling around with spring ball etc. Joe knew this cat better than his wife bruh!

 You don't think Sandusky said or did anything  at some point over the years that would indicate that he was a freak? C'mon man! You've got co-workers that you've known less than a year that you wouldn't go to lunch with because they've got some crazy habits. Everybody on that staff knew he was a freak and knew what he'd been doing. Only a sucker needed emails to confirm that! Selfish Ambition on everyone's part endangered those kids! Therefore, they all should have been fired and arrested for being an accomplice to a crime like I said when the joint first hit the news last year.

"JoePa was my guy!"

The Word of God says money is the root of all evil! Well, selfishness isn't too far behind! The fact that JoePa, the grad assistant at the time now wide receiver coach Mike McQueary and others knew about the actions of the now convicted Sandusky and did absolutely nothing is sickening.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, which ever comes first! Selfish ambition was at the root for everyone involved. The grad assistant who the witnessed Sandusky in the shower with the 10 year old child was concerned more about his job and his ability to move up than he was the youngster being violated. It obviously has worked to his advantage because 9 years later he's the wide receiver coach at Penn State.

JoePa was more concerned about his legacy and his ability break the all-time wins mark than he was about saving someone's kid from his homeboy. Paul says in Philippians 2:3, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.” In my standard hood vernacular, "You gotta be concerned about other folks bruh and not just about winning football games!"

 An individual with morals would never have swept a situation like this under the rug and kept in moving but the legendary Joe Paterno did. Say all you want about the hood but it even operates with a code. Kids are off limits to whatever crime you decide to commit. If or when a kid is involved there is swift street justice because the code has been violated. Either the streets will handle it and more often than not they will or the perpetrator will be turned in. That is the only time snitching is permissible in the ghetto! If thugs in the street can live by that code why couldn't a so-called civilized legend of college football do the same? Maybe because he wasn't so civilized huh?

I've got more respect for the gangsta's that I grew up with than I do for JoePa's legacy at this point. Remember when  he was outside of his house being cheered on and loving it like he'd just won the national title when they were about to fired him? Any decent human being would have come out and told the crowd to leave because this is completely inappropriate behavior at a time like this. Not JoePa though bruh! He was enjoying every minute of the attention.

 Everything that he accomplished, in my opinion, can be thrown in the garbage! Who cares that he won a lot of games. At the end of the day he showed us what he was really made of. In my opinion, he was no better than a drug dealer in the ghetto because he still helped a cat destroy the lives of children. Instead of them being born drug addicted and having to suffer their entire lives as a result of it. He allowed them to be sexually abused to suffer their entire lives as result of it. JoePa was no better than Nino Brown! Why, because he had the power to stop it at any time and chose not to! 

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Jay Graves
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The email excerpt was from the CNN Report on Anderson Cooper. 

Poison!

"The New and Improved BBD!"

In 1990 Bell Biv Devoe, which was a spin-off group from the world famous New Edition, released a hot joint called Poison! It was one of the hottest songs of the year selling 4 million records and therefore becoming certified platinum four times. It was about not getting into a relationship with a certain type of girl because it can be poison. Well...21 years later Penn State is now that girl!

Every since the child sex abuse scandal broke a couple of months ago the school has been straight up poison. They're losing all of their big time recruits and nobody wants to coach the Nittany Lions with good reason. Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Munchek who is a Penn State alumn says that he has no plans to leave the Titans to coach his Alma Mater.

"You all know Penn State means a lot to me. I obviously went to school there and I'm real concerned for what they've gone through the last couple of months. I'm flattered that people think I'd be a great fit for the coach there," Munchak said Wednesday after practice. They have not contacted me in any way or talked to me about the possibility of working there. I have not reached out to them. I have a job that I enjoy quite a bit."

Let me interpret what Mike was really saying. He was just singing the original song, "You can't trust a big butt and a smile that girl is poison!” No way he’s leaving a comfortable situation to take on the tress of rebuildig a program that’s in shambles right now. There isn't a kid in America with options that would go anywhere near Happy Valley at this point. Whoever takes that job already understands that it will be a battle on the recruiting trail that he'll lose just about 100% of the time.

If I'm an opposing coach going into the living room of a kid that is even considering Penn State. I'll just bring up the scandal. Parents don't want to send their kid to an institution where there was a massive cover up of sexual child abuse. The problem wasn't just some idiot operating on his own. Everybody in the program knew what was going on. From the AD down to assistant coaches, janitors and God knows who else knew what was happening. That place is poison for real.

They're going to have to gut the joint in order to start over. There can't be a remnant of anybody from the last administration, coaches included, even living near campus for me to feel comfortable sending my kid up there athlete or not.

Man for the next 2 to 3 years the Nittany Lions are going to look like the "Wildcats" with Goldie Hawn coaching. As a matter of fact, they should give her a call because this joint is something straight out of a movie. Are you kidding me?

If a kid does decide to go to Penn State it’ll be because he didn't have any other major offers. His choices were Indiana University of Pennsylvania., The Boys School of Transylvania and Penn State. When they take the field they're going to look like the Australian Camel Jockey Team. I mean it's gonna be a complete joke bruh!

I just hate that the current players had to go through all of this foolishness because they actually have a good team. They're ranked # 22 in the BCS and will face #20Houston in the TicketCity Bowl in Dallas on Jan 2nd. Nittany Lions fans better cheer like this is the national title game because they've got a long road ahead of them.

I can just picture recruits riding past Penn State right now with the tinted windows pulled half way down bumpin' that Poison! The Penn State coaching staff is in the middle of the street looking like the guy at the stop light with the squeegee trying to clean your windows. They’re saying, “C'mon man just let me holla at you real quick” as the recruit peels off on his way to Ohio State or Michigan for their official visits!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Information from the Associated Press was used in this article.

Mo Money Mo Problems!

"Look what JoePa left on the table!"

Have you ever met someone that just seemed to be in a fog all of the time? They're walking, talking and breathing but for some reason they just aren't in the same room as everybody else. That's how I feel about Joe Paterno (JoePa). He's even got his own theme music. It's the O'Jays 1982 hit "Your Body's Here With Me" but your mind is on the other side of town.

Penn State has completely taken advantage of the old guy over the years and it's a shame. They've kept him around for decades as the figure head and paid him peanuts relative to what big time college football coaches are paid. According to an Associated Press analysis of state public pension records JoePa's pension will be more than $500,000 a year because of his long service at the university. That's sound great on the surface but they were ripping the old timer off in his annual salary.

Paterno's pension records obtained Tuesday from the State Employees' Retirement System credit him with more than 60 years in the system. The formula used to determine benefits makes him eligible for a pension equal to 100 percent of the average of his three highest-salary years. However, his salary only rose from $541,000 to $568,000 over the past three full calendar years. Man that's highway robbery in this day and age. After 60 years on the job (as a big time coach) he was only making $568,000? Are you kidding me?

JoePa had no idea what coaches were making but Penn State definitely knew what the fair market value was. That's why they kept him around for so long because he was clueless.

Here is the list of the top ten college football coaches and their respective salaries as compiled after the 2010 college football season:
Nick Saban, University of Alabama: $5.9 million
Mack Brown, University of Texas: $5.1 million
Bob Stoops, University of Oklahoma: $4.3 million
Urban Meyer, University of Florida (resigned after season): $4 million
Les Miles, Louisiana State University: $3.9 million
Jim Tressel, Ohio State University (resigned after season): $3.8 million
Kirk Ferentz, University of Iowa: $3.7 million
Jim Frobe, Wake Forest University: $2.9 million
Mark Richt, University of Georgia: $2.9 million
Bobby Petrino, University of Arkansas: $2.7 million

If JoePa was the king of State College surely he should have been paid a cool million at the minimum. Even guys like first year head coach Kevin Wilson at Indiana University is getting $1.2 million per year. Keep in mind that they haven't won a conference title since 1967 and they're willing to break bread. For the university to keep him around for 46 years as the head coach and only pay him a half a million bucks is what I call the ultimate jack move.

Whether he asks for the money or not you have to pay the guy if you're going to have him around. Obviously he doesn't need or want it because he's accustomed to living a very modest life style which is evident by looking at his home. However, I believe that he should have been paid what he's worth and let him figure out what to do with it.

JoePa probably didn't even have an agent all of these years because when he started coaching they were shaking hands and giving $1000.00 annual raises. Penn State saw him coming and he kept coming bruh. Now they've got a real dilemma. In order to hire one of these new boyz they’ve got to come out of some serious bread.

Guys are pulling up to the interview now days bumpin' that Puff Daddy "It's All about the Benjamins, Wu-Tang Clan "C.R.E.A.M.", The Notorious B.I.G. "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems", Bone Thugs-N-Harmony "Foe tha Love of $", Junior M.A.F.I.A. “Get Money”, 50 Cent “I Get Money”, The LOX "Money, Power, Respect”, Jay-Z “Money, Cash, .....” and Jermaine Dupri featuring Jay-Z “Money Ain't a Thang” before they even get out of the car!

So if the Nittany Lions think they can roll up on a coach for a half million dollars in 2011 they've got serious problems!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Twitter:@jaygravesreport

My Brother's Keeper!

JoePa in his DMX voice, "Dat's my mans and nem!"

In Genesis 4:9 after Cain had murdered his brother Abel, God asked him where his brother was. Cain answered, “I know not; am I my brother's keeper?” Cain's words have come to symbolize people's unwillingness to accept responsibility for the welfare of their “brothers.” Even in the movie New Jack City The CMB (Cash Money Brothers) at least were aware of the scripture. However, not living by that montra ultimately cost them their lives!

Joe Paterno and all of the adults that had knowledge of the ongoing child sex abuse scandal at Penn State acted like Cain when asked what their brother Jerry Sandusky was doing over the past 15 plus years.

I'm completely blown away by all of the former players that have been interviewed on television that are supporting JoePa for his actions.

I've seen DJ Dozier, Matt Milan and even my man Lavar Arrington say that they would like JoePa to have his due process and that he should have been able to coach the rest of the season. What? Why is everybody stunned to find out that JoePa had knowledge of the situation and didn't act? He’s shown us that he was selfish for years because he won’t get out of the way and let Penn State move into the 21^st century.

Let me break it down so you can understand it bruh! Jerry Sandusky became a full time coach at Penn State in 1970 and was there until 1999. That means that JoePa worked with this guy for darn near thirty years everyday. Now I'm not sure if you understand just how much college football coaches work so I'll explain.

They are at the complex from 5am to about midnight from Sunday through Thursday. They get ready for a ball game by traveling on Friday along with walk through practice and meetings etc. Home games are no different because the team still stays at a hotel on Friday night. They coach a big game on Saturday only to repeat the cycle all over again. These guys don't get days off like you and I. Now that’s just during the season. They recruit the rest of the year other than when they’re in spring ball only to get a month off in late June into July.

So if a guy is next to you for 30 years you know what his tendencies are bruh! He's done or said something out of his comfort of just being around you that was suspicious. Let's keep it real! You can't do anything good or bad and your homeboys not find out about it.

I've got buddies that I've been tight with for 30 years that live across the country and I find out what they’re doing good or bad just because people know their my boys. You know exactly what I'm talking about. How many times have you gotten a phone call about one of your homeboys or girls that they were into something crazy?

Now think about JoePa and Co. living in the same city with a guy that was on something crazy! You don't think that folks have pulled Joe to the side over the years and said, Hey dawg what's up wit ya boy? I heard he's on something real crazy!" Keep in mind that at a minimum Joe knew about the 2002 shower incident and Sandusky is still allowed to hang out on campus in 2011? Joe Paterno is the king of State College. Nothing moves without Joe’s permission.

So don't try to tell me that JoePa needs due process because he may not have known or because he did what he was supposed to legally do. That doesn't cut it bruh! Anything short of calling the police and whooping his boys butt is uncivilized. Even if he couldn't beat him down every knows a guy that'll do it for a case of brew. JoePa was Cain in this situation all day long! He closed his eyes, kept on coaching and every time somebody pulled him to the side he responded, "Am I my brother’s keeper?" Just like Nino Brown's career, JoePa's ended in the streets too.


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Jay Graves
Twitter:@jaygravesreport

Selfish Ambition!

"I don't know what to tell you!"

The trustees at Penn State University did what many believed just weeks ago would be the unthinkable. They had to fire the living legend Joe Paterno amid the child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the university! He essentially pulled a Kobe before there was a Kobe and put Penn State on his back for more than six decades. Paterno was the head coach there for 46 of those years.

Joe Paterno or JoePa as he has been so affectionately called had just recently broken the all-time NCAA wins record held by legendary Grambling State coach Eddie Robinson with 409 wins. He was carried off of the field just two weeks ago after beating Illinois to break the record. In my opinion, he should have been carried off in handcuffs along with the A.D. and the VP of finance for being a selfish coward.

The Word of God says money is the root of all evil! Well, selfishness isn't too far behind! The fact that JoePa, the grad assistant at the time now wide receiver coach Mike McQueary and others knew about the actions of the accused Jerry Sandusky and did absolutely nothing is sickening. The board of trustees had no choice but to remove JoePa.

"The Penn State board of trustees tonight decided it is in the best interest of the university to have a change in leadership to deal with the difficult issues that we are facing," board vice chair John Surma said. "The past several days have been absolutely terrible for the entire Penn State community. But the outrage that we feel is nothing compared to the physical and psychological suffering that allegedly took place."

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, which ever comes first! Selfish ambition was at the root for everyone involved. The grad assistant who the witnessed Sandusky in the shower with the 10 year old child was concerned more about his job and ability to move up than he was the youngster being violated. It obviously has worked to his advantage because 9 years later he's the wide receiver coach at Penn State.

JoePa was more concerned about his legacy and his ability to break the all-time wins mark than he was about the victims. Paul says in Philippians 2:3, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.” That means you gotta be concerned about other folks bruh!

 Let's be honest here. He should've been fired years ago but no one at Penn State had the package to do it. Even before this incident I thought JoePa was selfish because he's been pulling a Brett Favre on us for years.

The freaking guy has been in the way and no one had the courage to get rid of him. He's had no idea what the game plan has been for at least ten years bruh. The guy is just a figure head! He sits in the freaking press box on game day without a head set! Why are people shocked that JoePa left some kid hanging because he's proven over the years that he only concerned about himself.

An individual with morals would never have swept a situation like this under the rug and kept in moving but the legendary Joe Paterno did. Say all you want about the hood but it even operates with a code. Kids are off limits in whatever crime you decide to commit. If or when a kid is involved there is swift street justice because the code has been violated. Either the streets will handle it or the perpetrator will be turned in. That is the only time snitching is permissible in the hood! If thugs in the street can live by that code why can't a so-called civilized legend of college football do the same?

I've got more respect for the gangsta's that I grew up with than I do for JoePa at this point. He was outside of his house a couple of nights ago being cheered on and loving it like he'd just won the national title. Any decent human being would have come out and told the crowd to leave because this is completely inappropriate behavior at a time like this. The students that were out there were completely naive to the severity of the situation because many of them don't have children of their own. However, this 84 year old man has both children and grandchildren.

Everything that JoePa has accomplished, in my opinion, can be thrown out of the window! Who cares that he won a lot of games. At the end of the day he showed us what he was really made of.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Twitter:@jaygravesreport

The Penn State Nittany Ostriches

"Man I didn't see nothing!"

Normally university mascot names are brought on by something out of the states history. For example Oklahoma is known as the Sooner state because of the Oklahoma land rush of 1889. Tennessee is known as the Volunteer state because during the war in 1812 between the United States and Britain 2,000 Tennessee residents volunteered to fight.

So I guess that we've got to change the Pennsylvania nickname from the Nittany Lions to the Nittany Ostriches in light of everyone just sticking their heads in the sand in State College. Former long time assistant and at one time heir apparent to Joe Paterno, Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of a child, indecent assault and unlawful contact with minor, as well as single counts of aggravated indecent assault and attempted indecent assault.

What I'm trippin' on is the fact that this has been going on for more than 15 years and no one has ever bothered to call the police including Joe Paterno! How can you be aware of these allegations and never call the authorities bruh?

The first case to come to light was a boy who met Sandusky when he was 11 or 12, the grand jury said. The boy received expensive gifts and trips to sporting events from Sandusky, and physical contact began during his overnight stays at Sandusky's home, jurors said. Eventually, the boy's mother reported the allegations of sexual assault to his high school, and Sandusky was banned from the child's school district in Clinton County in 2009. That triggered the state investigation that culminated in charges Saturday.

Why wasn't the police called right away? Banning him from the school district just says that you can't do that over here. It's like catching your neighbor's kid behind your house smoking weed and telling him to take that somewhere else. You see his folks daily but never tell them that their kid is getting high.

Another child, known only as a boy about 11 to 13, was seen by a janitor pinned against a wall while Sandusky performed oral sex on him in fall 2000, the grand jury said. Also in 2002, Kelly said, a graduate assistant saw Sandusky sexually assault a naked boy, estimated to be about 10 years old, in a team locker room shower. The grad student and his father reported what he saw to Paterno, who immediately told the athletic director and VP of finance for the university, prosecutors said. They didn't meet with the graduate assistant until about a week and a half later, Kelly said.

This is completely ridiculous! All of these people were either witnesses to or had knowledge of someone's child being sexually abused and essentially did nothing including the beloved Joe Pa! How do you get word that someone's child is being abused and take the easy road out by just telling the athletic director and the VP of Finance? Are you kidding me?

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, which ever comes first! Where I'm from they wouldn't have been able to recognize Sandusky by the time the police would have gotten there if someone would have caught him in the act. Justice would have been served well before the cops and the coroner arrived.

Joe Pa was only concerned about his legacy at the time he told the school officials. He didn't want the guy that was once his heir apparent to be arrested because it would've looked bad. What a Coward! Yes, I just said it bruh! Joe Paterno is a coward and should be fired immediately as a result of knowing of the incident and doing nothing. What have you always heard for years? If you know about it and do nothing you’re just as guilty! Jim Tressel was fired for less! Holla At Ya Boy!

Then he becomes real fake with it by releasing a statement and saying, "If true, the nature and amount of charges made are very shocking to me and all Penn Staters. While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved I can't help but be deeply saddened these matters are alleged to have occurred.

Shocked bruh? You've known about the incident since 2002! Where’s Chris Carter, KeyShawn, Tom Jackson and Coach Ditka when you need them most? C'Mon Man!! How can you sit in another recruit’s living room and tell his folks that you’re going to take care of their child when you couldn’t even call the police on your homeboy for the most egregious of crimes?

In my opinon, the Clinton School District, the A.D., the V.P, the janitor, the grad assistant, his father and Joe Pa should have all been arrested and in court yesterday. As a matter fact, go pick up the guy that built the freaking shower and haul him in too. It's a shame that someone that has meant so much to Penn State for so long is going to get run out of town for being a selfish coward instead of being a great football coach! I can see Joe Pa leaving town now bumping that Public Enemy, "911 is a Joke" joint with his seat leaned all the way back. If that was his boy then he knew the whole time bruh!

Holla at Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Twitter:@jaygravesreport

Information from the Associated Press was used in this article.