[henkster]

These people need to accept that Papa Joe failed the test of character and get over it.

[Vigilanteman]

Joe Pa's failure was working within the system and the entire Freeh Report pretty much papers over the gay friendly atmosphere which was constructed at Penn State (and most other public universities) over the years.

Yes, Paterno's legacy was tarnished, but he is hardly a star player in this fiasco. Not even close.

Without Graham Spainer, his sexology professor wife and the rest of the PC crowd making it a capital offense to even discuss, much less prevent the aberrant behavior of homosexuals, Sandusky could not have operated as freely as he did for as long as he did. The PC crowd was only too happy to make Paterno the fall guy to take the heat off them. The NCAA was only too happy to play along.

[cherry]

I still think Paterno got a raw deal....his sin was one of being an elderly old fashioned man who believed the best in people and couldn't imagine the worse......I'm pretty sure the underlings sugar coated whatever Sandusky was doing as perfectly innocent...

the NCAA is a politically left leaning organization growing worse as the years go by....they pick and choose their winners just like they're letting Oregon have a multimillionaire/billionaire booster practically run the entire athletic dept there and nothing is said or done....or why Cam Newton can get away with what he did.....

Penn state was old school....with a new president and underlings that were trying to make it "modern"....they pushed out the female BB coach for saying she didn't want gay bb players....