I urge people to investigate Paterno's relationship with Sandusky. Hint: they were not friends, and Joe did not raise any objection to Sandusky's firing. He didn't even defend him. Joe may have had some idea of what was going on, but he did not have first hand information.
Time to put yourselves in that situation and think about what you would really do. Do you take rumor and a lack of charges as your motivation, or do you focus on football and all the problems going on with student-athletes?
The JoePa that I know is old school. He wasn't sophisticated, and that includes football for the last 20 years of his career. But he deserved to go out on his own terms - as much as I disliked seeing PSU lose. Given his lack of sophistication I completely believe that if Joe had hard evidence, saw it with his own eyes evidence, he would have personally cut Sandusky's cock off.
I think JoePa was just wise enough to think the authorities would take care of the problem. The problem was, the authorities didn't - at multiple levels of government.
Thanks ConservativeInPA...The month of February is going to be very enlightening for a lot of people. Stay tuned.
Sandusky and his "date" would sit up on the dias with the other Penn State officials and then retire to their room at the end of the night.
Joe Pa chose not to notice. That's reprehensible and unforgivable.