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.
That's for damn sure!
As a grad of PSU I believe that in the end this was about 20-30 yrs worth of a few protecting the Penn State football brand and greed, and never about goodness or as Paterno said Success with Honor.
Anyone who got in the way of management in hurting the brand of the institution would be trashed, or made into a laughing stock and their credibility dissolved. Confrontation of the powers that be would lead to self economic destruction.
It was always about more money, and no ethics. Those involved could buy off our politicians just as do the CEOs an Wall St bankers and billionaires with their pocket change. Hey politicians are a cheap date but not for taxpayers.