Listen...and please listen well: There are cover-ups by commission -- of which it's hard to prove JoePa was guilty of ... and then there's cover-ups by omission...which is all too easy to conclude in this case.
JoePa was a literal "god" on campus. He was in the post Sandusky shower years STILL at that time THE most powerful man on campus.
He hired the shower eyewitness onto his staff as a wide receivers coach AFTER the shower stall report.
All he ever had to do was to have one little convo with his asst coach -- asking if the authorities had ever followed up on that report. [Upon which he could have pushed his supposed "superiors" on campus further as to why it was never "handled" properly...I say supposed "superiors" because at one point JoePa was still powerful enough to throw his weight around campus had he so chosen]
Either that little convo didn't happen...which was outright neglect...or, he found out the answer & pursued NOTHING further that would have removed his name from the ensuing taint.
This same wide receiver coach then cont'd up the "reward" progression ... being named head of recruiting. So, JoePa & others who "Hired" him as WR coach & then head of recruiting could "research" all they want about the man they were in the process of hiring...but they couldn't find out one simple thing about the lack of authorities' pursuit of what he saw in the Penn State shower?
Sorry...there IS such a thing as common-sense credulity.
Yeah, you and the rest of the pathetic lynch mob keep repeating that myth. Paterno was a highly respected football coach who did more for thousands of young people and a university than somebody like you could ever hope to do. Paterno was an old man who coached the football team - - he wasn't a cop or an investigator or a prosecutor. Throw your crap at all the people - - and there's plenty of them - - who were supposed to DO something about Sandusky and quit smearing the reputation of somebody who's not around to defend himself. Get some class. And shove that "god" stuff up your rear end.