Agree.
Nothing in the former FBI director’s report suggests “everyone” in the administration knew about this. Penn State should tell the accreditation agency to take a hike.
It doesn’t have to be “everyone.”. If one higher up knew the assistant football coach was molesting boys, everyone lose should have known, and probably did. That’s a tough piece of gossip to choke down.
Freeh’s report was complete and total bunk, paid for by the Board of Trustees. They got exactly what they wanted. “They protected Jerry to save the football program’s image”. Nonsense. There was zero evidence linking Paterno to the coverup. There was nothing from anyone involved saying “we gotta keep this under wraps or it’ll hurt recruiting”. No evidence even remotely touching on any of that. But those were Freeh’s conclusions and what the media ran with.
It stinks to high heaven. They administrators weren’t protecting the football program, they were protecting somebody else very high in power (either financial or political power, or both.)