It was/is legal to inquire about one's players' grades but it was/is illegal for anyone in the administration, law enforcement, county, or state to tell anybody about an investigation of this type. If he had found out about it, both he and the one who told him would have faced criminal and civil prosecution.
but apparently he simply told Curley and washed his hands of the situation.
He was not an eyewitness -- just a messenger. He didn't see anything but had to take McQueary's word for it -- a guy who could have been making the whole thing up. However he followed procedures and contacted Curley who contacted Schultz and they met with McQueary and he followed up with McQueary to make sure that they met. What more was he supposed to do????????????
Schultz then went back to his office and contacted the Chief of Police of the PSUPD who was the lead law enforcement official in the 1998 investigation. This Chief of the PSUPD still had the 1998 report on his computer and pulled it up.
Paterno lit the fire that got all the right people involved -- athletic director, VP of PSU, Chief of Police of the PSUPD, President of PSU, legal counsel of PSU, the Director and Board members of Sandusky's charity TSM.
How the hell does anyone call that "washing your hands". Within days of his notification there were a whole lot of hands in the mix and his were not legally or morally or evidently required to be there.
Who else needed to know that any of the others who knew more than he did, including Mike McQueary, were incapable of contacting????
I met Curt Warner in NYC in 1985. He was going out with my fiance’s best friend. I am not surprised to see him missing from the 1980’s list after our conversation.