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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.

I disagree with your premise, but I will for now for arguments sake. If what you say is true, it still shows that Joe Paterno was a phony to his core. Like a long line of other phony coaches in the past and present, when given a chance to show true leadership and character, they fail miserably, every time. I bet Paterno got up in front of the crowd at rubber chicken banquets hundreds if not thousands of times giving some speech about leadership and character, and how he personified it at Penn State. But in the end it was just BS for the jock sniffers to devour. When given the chance to live up to his own standards, he retreated like the coward he really was into bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. He was more concerned about his own legacy than any of the crimes that Sandusky committed. A true jerk. A true hypocrite, who hid behind his holier than thou personae. A real man of character, not the lesser type like Paterno, would have marched right to the police and reported this heinous crime, all other considerations be damned. In the end, he would have been a hero if he did the right thing. That is the irony of this tragedy. But this strange and weird guy, and he was, took the route of selfishness and cowardice. The truth, he did what he did because he truly was a putrid little man. As for his defenders, I recognize them too. In my younger days I was an athlete in college, even played against Penn State in another sport. His defenders remind me of the pain in the ass hangers on, weirdos, who wanted to just hang out with athletes. True jock sniffers.