They all knew there were problems with Sandusky. They all knew exposure would cause problems such as litigation and embarrassment for PSU and football. What they all failed to grasp was that their refusal to address the problems head-on 15 or more years ago made the problem many times worse and exposed many other victims that should never have been exposed to these acts. The leaders knew and they did nothing and now everything is much worse because of it. Why do these decision makers always believe (but wrongly) they can outsmart the eventual outcome. Now they say they grieve.
1. Protection of children is NUMERO UNO. Any predator harming kids MUST be contained as to having no access to kids whatsoever till the end of his life if possible. PSU should have severed ALL ties with Sandusky at the first hint that he was doing anything to harm them or take advantage of them including barring him from using PSU facilities on campus as well as on all satelite campuses; everyone who needed to know should have been informed of this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy back when!
2. The cover-up, if there was a cover-up, theoretically, could have been to avoid a big scandal; HOWEVER, avoiding it back then made the subsequent scandal ever so much worse, exponentially worse.
3. Concern for the victims must be paramount now and from here on out. My prayers are with them.
4. The short-term and long-term negative impact on Penn State is astronomical. My prayers are with Penn State too.
Nuff said.