Exactly. Precisely.
And now...ALL of these Penn State banner-wavers still being Sandusky's & Paterno's advocates --
-- along being advocates of the other pervert-protectors who were on Penn State's paycheck records thru November and May, respectively (Spanier was thru Nov -- up until he was charged; and their AD Curley was up until his retirement last Spring)--
--can just go ahead & start their new Nittany Lyin' "support group": Creepers Unanimous!
Joe Paterno followed the procedures that are still in place today. He notified his superior and went further by setting up a meeting with mike mcqueary, his superior, and the head of the University Police.
I’m not sure what else he was supposed to do based on a sketchy account given to him by a witness that has numerous times admitted he didn’t go into detail in his conversation with Joe.
Even if mm DID go into detail in that conversation (which he didn’t), Joe followed the book. To do otherwise could have jeopardized the investigation.
You believe whatever you want though. Whatever makes you feel good. Truth be damned.
Hardly.
Sandusky was a pedophile, and nobody is denying his guilt here. Various individuals covered for him, but the main culprits in that regard were the people at the highest levels of the school admin. I objected to the media circus surrounding Paterno simply because he was the only one whose name everyone knew, when they ignored the people most responsible. Paterno never witnessed the act as far as we know. We know McQueary or whatever his name was did, but Paterno only reported it to the people he was supposed to report it to.
McQueary had a moral obligation to call the cops since he witnessed it, but Paterno was going on only what he was told. He could have made more of an effort, but to put him in the same category as the people above who had the bureaucratic responsibility to actually initiate the investigation and didn’t, is unjust. Those people are deserving of far more scorn than Paterno, especially Spanier.
I don’t think he should have stayed on as coach, but the complete destruction of his legacy and some of the punitive measures like nullifying all the victories is wrong in my view.