The other reason that I think that the NCAA took the action it did and as quickly as it did was to hold off any investigations into what it knew about the Sandusky affair.
I am betting that more than one NCAA official queried Paterno why it was that his long time Defensive coordinator was no longer with the program.
Of course, the one person who would know what the NCAA knew and when is no longer alive. Which is why the NCAA did what it did.
this guy is right this is bs this should be a legal and criminal investitation sorry folks that is what it is i am a carolina fine but this is insane! 4 yrs prob come on?
It's very possible that by 1998 Paterno had become creeped out by Sandusky, especially if he heard the story about the mother who wore a wire for the police after Sandusky brought her son home with a wet head. Of course, this was a few years before Mike McQueery caught the homosexual pedophile in the showers with a young boy and then just walked away ...after slamming a locker to show his disapproval, don't you know... and then told Paterno the next day that he had witnessed something he thought was dreadfully inappropriate.