The football team is badly hurt by this. These are all good young men..Penn State has a high % of athletes who graduate..and a very good team this season. Yet for the rest of their lives, for the next 50 years, when they come back to campus, they will be tagged as the "team when the pedophila scandal broke."
I feel for them.
The team can decide to make their OWN statement, put THEIR mark on the seasdon, what they accomplished, and win out...I think they will.
If the team steps out on the field with Joe Paterno on the sidelines (as you have stated you desire) then they have put their mark on their team. Imagine how the 1999 team feels now everytime they see photos of them carrying Sandusky off the field on their shoulders.
Yes sir, the winning team of Pedophila State.