UGAChemDawg wrote: Sandusky deserves to rot in prison for this.
However, to say Joe Paterno, a man who literally gave his life to the university, is a pedophile enabler is just wrong. An error in judgement does not negate all the good he has done and he does not deserve to go out like this. He should have been allowed to finish out the season.
If he actually believed that what Sandusky was accused of was true, he would have suspended him and gone to the authorities.
A graduate student came up to him and told him that someone he had known and trusted for a long time was doing something evil and perverted. Of course he isn't going to believe the graduate student! He reported the incident to his superiors as required, but the fact that the graduate student didn't react more strongly at the time he saw the incident taking place would naturally lead one to conclude that he is lying.
Hindsight is always 20/20 but Paterno certainly was not intentionally trying to cover up a crime or protect someone he knew was molesting children, which is what he is being accused of.
You obviously are missing parts of the story. How can Joe Pa suspend Sandusky when Sandusky was already retired? Sandusky was not a part of the PSU program after 1999. What happened after is why all this is going down. There are claims to 40 cases of abuse total, and the majority of them were happening on the campus. To let this situation sit there for 15 years is absurd. The only reason for cover up was to keep the PSU tradition clean. Joe Pa saw it that way as well, or this would have been brought up long ago and dealt with then.
Not only that, but Joe Pa has been milking his time there. The board along with a lot of other higher ups have been pushing him to retire and Joe was basically giving them the middle finger. This case looked like a perfect reason to finally get rid of him.
There are rumors coming out about how this foundation could have been a "pimping machine" to pimp the boys out to the highest donors. With that said, I don't think this case will be over anytime soon and I highly doubt that PSU will recover from this.
