According to ESPN Magazine in April 2012, Spanier, Curley, and Schultz tried to retire Paterno in 2004. He told them “he wasn’t ready to go.” “Hey, fellas,” Paterno said, his voice rising, “I’ve raised more than $1 billion for this university — in this kitchen. I’m not going anywhere.”
...... Paterno could not help telling reporters how Spanier and others had tried to force him out, while sitting at his kitchen table. “I said, ‘Relax. Get off my backside,’” Paterno told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
...... For the university’s leaders, the incident in the kitchen was a powerful reminder of Paterno’s staying power. Every year after, he would flirt with retirement. Sometimes, he’d draw up a list of possible successors. (Urban Meyer topped it in 2011.) But after each season, Paterno changed his mind. The trustees resented Paterno’s insistence that he’d decide on his successor. “It’s not his decision,” one said last summer.
So, puhlease, enough with Paterno reporting it upstairs. He was in charge, not them.
First, if JoePa reported it to Schultz, then JoePa perjured himself before the grand jury. Second, although department of the university police ultimately reported to Schultz, so did Internal Audit, and Buildings and Maintenance, and another dozen departments.
They may well have said JoePa reported it to the Athletic Director and the head of Buildings and Maintenance. After all, it did involve on-campus plumbing.
In a long ago Sports Illustrated story, (Regarding the NCAA’s ongoing recruiting scandals), Joe Paterno was quoted this way: “There were probably more illegal offers in recruiting last year than ever before”. And this one: one: “I’ve never blown the whistle on anyone yet...and I never will”. Nice huh? So if Joe would not come forward on something as trivial, (really and ongoing for a 100 years at major schools), as a University’s recruiter offering up a bit of money, or a car, a gal etc. etc. for some kid to attend that school, there is no way in heck Paterno was gonna spill on something as devastating as the Sandusky thing. He proves it with his own words! You will never get through to Paterno’s worshippers though.