Joe Pa’s character was revealed to all because of his orchestration of the Sandusky cover-up. Don’t say he didn’t make the decision; everyone knew that Paterno ran Penn State and that crossing him would end anyone’s job at the school.
I never cared for him, especially when Alabama was screwed over twice in three years in football games by refs beholden to Paterno.
He cared more about his public image than a bunch of boys being sexually brutalized. NOTHING can offset that even in the slightest degree.
Jim Boeheim, of Syracuse, is no better than Paterno because he had to know Bernie Fine was molesting boys, too. Even worse is that people at ESPN knew what was going on in the Syracuse basketball program and did nothing because so many of them are graduates from the ‘Cuse and wanted to protect their school.
the janitors knew but feared for their jobs, thus keeping silent
I also find it curious that when Sandusky left Penn State in 1999, few schools reached out to him, I remember at the time that Sandusky was a defensive coaching legend, who certainly would have been at the top of many schools’ wish lists. Yet few offers came his way. I find that very odd, and as Aldo Rayne said in Inglorious Basterds, “We gotta word for that kinda odd in English, it’s called ‘Suspicious’”
I never cared for him, especially when Alabama was screwed over twice in three years in football games by refs beholden to Paterno...
...I remember the one game up at State College where the bama tight end caught a pass in the end zone for the game winner, and the ref either ruled it out of bounds or some other thing, and disallowed it...how blatant was that? Don’t recall anything else with Bama, but one game against Nebraska where a PSU end caught the ball way out of bounds and it was called complete and placed at the one yard line...that was the only game Nebraska lost that year and it cost them the title...out an out robbery, and really soured me on PSU football...