Everybody loves a good lynching while the fires are burning, but the next morning when the fires cool, some people regret the murderous acts of the previous night.
And scapegoated. Once he was sufficiently condemned and destroyed in the court of public opinion the anger went away.
The university’s administration that enabled this far more than Paterno got off pretty easy. But the press focused on the vacated wins and called it quits.
Bullcrap. Sandusky was his right-hand man, and Paterno repeatedly looked the other way in order to protect his precious football program. His own grand jury testimony damns him.