Are the college football players at Penn State evil?
Well, the Bible says ALL have fallen short of the glory of God (Book of Romans)
But "evil" in the way you mean it ???
The bottom-line here is that, yes, there IS such a thing as "corporate guilt."
Jesus condemned entire communities ( 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. 15 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades." -- Luke 10:13-15)
The "you" there is plural. When community leaders intentionally cover up repeated child-rape, they abuse their authority and become accomplices to the rapist. And when people "in the know" -- those closest to those who covered up -- joined in the cover-up...from the janitors on up to assistant coaches to whoever "happened to find out" along the way...then the conspiracy of silence got to be fairly extensive.
Even three trustees on the Penn State board knew at least enough of the early investigations and early grand jury focus...and yet kept other trustees in the dark.
Happy Valley set up internal systems with ZERO built-in accountability PLUS suffered an epic failure of ANY whistleblowers coming forth.
My conclusion? "'Happy' Valley is exactly the same kind of euphemism that the homosexual community uses when they distorted the word 'gay'"