JoePa was a confused old man who should have retired a dozen years before he ultimately did. He bears a lot of responsibility for not having forced the university to deal with Sandusky in harsh terms, or at least do a proper investigation.
There was a weird cult among the student-fans about Paterno that got increasingly fanatical as the fortunes of the football program declined. I couldn’t understand it. I am a Wins & Losses kind of fan and Paterno wasn’t putting a good product on the field most years.
Separating Paterno from that football program would have been like operating to separate siamese-twins — both patients would likely have died. Yet I alway thought that it would be worth it in the long-run. The Sandusky-pedophilia scandal proves that I was right. At least a new coach would have had more supervision.
10 years is a long time. A definite case of misplaced loyalties. As bad as the crimes were it proves again that as organized coverup is worse than the original crime. Sandusky was a sick puppy the enablers were just plain evil.
joe tse tung’s followers want to preserve the cult of personality around him