Easy? No, just the most well known. He was in essence the face of PSU. There weren't statues of the school president or athletic director on campus, were there?
iirc, back in 2004 or so didn’t the PSU president along with the athletic director reportedly demand Paterno resign or be fired? Yet we’re supposed to believe he was powerless to stop a child sex predator outside of reporting some inappropriate horse play in the showers to the “higher ups”.
Yes, precisely. Paterno was the easy target. By that I mean recognizable and out in the open, a very public figure.