Joe Paterno to the students who had assembled outside his home:
“I wish I had done more.”
John - the exact quote was: “In hindsight, I wish I had done more”. And it wasn’t to the students, it was to the local media.
The key word is “hindsight”. It is no more an admission of any sort of guilt than me wishing I had done something about 9-11.
Read Posnanski’s book and it talks a lot about this quote and what the media (espn) did with it. Watch Ziegler’s film and you’ll see how a genuine act of sorrow and remorse (not guilt) is spun into some sort of confession.
Ridiculous. Especially when it comes from the mouth of an 84 year old man dying of lung cancer.