“Paterno said Sunday in a statement that he’d never been told the graphic details revealed in the grand jury report but that he nevertheless passed the allegations on to his boss. He had, he said in the statement, done “what I was supposed to.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/08/justice/pennslyvania-coach-abuse-paterno/
All this does is to get him off the criminal legal hook.
It doesn't excuse him morally.
Nor will it excuse him when these kids - now-turning adults start filing civil suits vs. Penn State and old Joe gets depositioned and interrogated in case after case after case.
What did he know when?
Why wasn't he able to use his great influence to keep Sandusky off campus (Sandusky ran football camps thru 2008)?
Why did Sandusky have a key to the office & showers thru Nov 2011?
What did he urge McQueary -- an eyewitness -- to do or not to do?
If anybody thinks JoPa will "retire," think again...He'll be "working" as an an ongoing witness in criminal cases and a deposed defendant in numerous civil suits. That will be his new "job."