. This doesn’t mean I did nothing, and Paterno also did something; something prudent and responsible instead of turning into a loose cannon...
...look, this whole thing is very simple...and it has little to do with whether Paterno did the right or wrong thing...the truth is, he was the acknowledged leader of the PSU football program, the captain of the ship...and what happens to the captain of a ship that runs aground and costs the ship’s owners money and prestige? He is terminated, whether or not he caused the accident...there are many instances of bus drivers, tug boat skippers, and other such types being relieved of duty after accidents even though it can’t be proved they were the immediate cause...do you think Captain Smith of the Titanic would have retained his postion had he survived...or just think of the officers who walked the plank after the Tailhook incident, some who weren’t even there, yet suffered ignominy...nobody ever said being the head of an operation would be easy...or even fair...as it is often neither...
If on the Sunday morning that McQueery came to visit Paterno, McQueery reported that he had witnessed Paterno’s statue or office being vandalized the night before, I find it inconceivable that there would not have been an immediate call to the campus police instead of waiting ‘til Monday to report it to the AD, and VP.