The story was, is, and always will be how/why Penn State swept this under the rug for many years. What did they know, who knew it, and when they know it?
Exactly...it’s no accident that Sandusky “retired” in the late 90s, shortly after the first investigation into his activities. The reason the Sodomite was allowed to retire with full pension and benefits is because too many people were aware of his proclivities and looked the other way. So, he kept his keys to the football complex and when that grad assistant caught him molesting another little boy, he was promoted to assistant coach, “Joe Pa” called the AD, and the whole, perverted mess got swept under the rug again.
During my days as an ROTC instructor at an SEC school. I became friends with a couple of assistant coaches on the football staff. I still exchanges e-mails with them occasionally and when the Sandusky scandal broke, I asked them if it was possible that Paterno and his assistants didn’t know what was going on. Both said it was virtually impossible, given Sandusky’s long tenure at the school and the number of assistants who spent their careers working with him.
As one of them told me, you don’t spend 14-18 hour days working with a guy without getting a sense of what kind of man your colleague is. A lot of people at PSU knew who Jerr y Sandusky really was and elected to ignore it, lest the Nittany Lion football “brand” be damaged and with it, Joe Pa’s sterling reputation.
Penn State can’t pay enough to the young men who were raped by Jerry Sandusky. And if the NCAA has any shred of integrity (highly unlikely), they will impose the death penalty for two or three years. PSU deserves nothing less. Remember, SMU was forced to suspend its football program back in the 1980s for the mere crime of paying its players. What Sandusky did as a representative of that school is infinitely worse, and there were plenty of folks at Penn State who willingly covered up his actions.