I've said this on several previous threads...allow me to repeat it for your benefit:
Listen...and please listen well:
Some cover-ups exist by commission -- of which it's hard to prove JoePa was guilty of ...
and then there's cover-ups by omission...which is all too easy to conclude in this case.
JoePa was a literal "god" on campus. During those post-Sandusky shower years, he STILL at that time THE most powerful man on campus.
He hired the shower eyewitness onto his staff as a wide receivers coach AFTER the shower stall report.
All he ever had to do was to have one little convo with his asst coach -- asking if the authorities had ever followed up on that report. [Upon which he could have pushed his supposed "superiors" on campus further as to why it was never "handled" properly...I say supposed "superiors" because at one point JoePa was still powerful enough to throw his weight around campus had he so chosen]
Either that little convo didn't happen...which was outright neglect...or, he found out the answer & pursued NOTHING further that would have removed his name from the ensuing taint.
This same wide receiver coach then cont'd up the "reward" progression ... being named head of recruiting. So, JoePa & others who "Hired" him as WR coach & then head of recruiting could "research" all they want about the man they were in the process of hiring...but they couldn't find out one simple thing about the lack of authorities' pursuit of what he saw in the Penn State shower?
Sorry...there IS such a thing as common-sense credulity.
Perhaps Paterno wrongly assumed it was looked into which it was supposed to have been by Curley and the other guy. I said he could have done more to chase it, and yeah he was probably taking an ‘officially it’s their responsibility’ stance, but my point was that Spanier and co, McQueary, and even Sandusky to a degree got off light in the media compared to Paterno simply because of who Paterno was.
In Florida, George Zimmerman it seems, is a hothead jackass and not some upstanding citizen, but I still object to the lynching that went on in the media without any attention to the fact that Trayvon was a thug who probably started the confrontation.
I guess what I am protesting is how the media drives police investigations and court proceedings so much nowadays. They can turn you into a martyr or a monster at the drop of a hat, while leaving out facts that they think are unimportant or that don’t suit the agenda.