#1...we know Paterno testified that he was told (by McQueary) that some "inappropriate action" was witnessed re: Sandusky upon a boy in a Penn State locker room shower.
#2...As mentioned in post #122 re: a quote from columnist Scott Ostler: "With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more," Paterno said in a statement. That's pathetic. You need hindsight to tell you that you must do whatever you can to stop a dangerous criminal?
Hence, Paterno ALREADY conceded he failed to act!!!
What did this "failure" to act include?
(a) After McQueary met with Paterno, he delayed telling his supervisors for 24 hours. (What? What if YOUR kid Chip was accessable to a re-rape the night Paterno said nothing) And (b) ...What was a LOT worse: He never followed up in the LONG RUN to ensure that the authorities (not just his superiors) found out McQueary's eyewitness report.
Then (c), Paterno upgraded McQueary's lot in life (from grad asst to wide receivers coach & then head of recruiting). What? You don't think Paterno had the option of asking McQueary from 2004 to 2009 if the police had ever questioned him about the matter...and upon finding out 'no' -- to use his considerable influence to direct McQueary to do that?
“Hence, Paterno ALREADY conceded he failed to act!!!”
Colo, I can look back at many instances in my life - now with perfect hindsight - and wish I had done more. Hindsight works that way. At the time things happen, we usually don’t possess a 360 degree view of all information. Later I simply said that in light of all that came out, with perfect hindsight now, he wished he had done more.
He did not say he failed to act.