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Child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State
By kens5.com - David Flores
Published: 11/10/2011

UTSA football coach Larry Coker is generally in a lighthearted mood when he talks with the media after practice. That wasn’t the case Wednesday morning when he opened his post-workout remarks with his thoughts on the child sex-abuse scandal that has shaken Penn State to its core.

The serious look on Coker’s face reflected his feelings not only as a coach, but as a grandfather of two 10-year-old boys.

“It’s a horrible, horrible story,” Coker said. “You guys hate it. Everybody hates it. I hate it for a lot of reasons – for Penn State, for Coach Paterno, but also for those victims. Sometimes that’s almost forgotten in the story. That’s a lifelong thing, a lifelong thing.”

Coker made his comments before learning that Joe Paterno had announced he was retiring at the end of the season, and some 12 hours before the Penn State board of trustees fired Paterno on Wednesday night.

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