He embraced it. He still produced high caliber scholar-athletes but the things they were being scholarly about changed.
Consider the in time frame editorial take on the umbrage now clearly deserved on a PSU Sex Faire based on such immature, dismal and rotten attitudes towards sex:
In February 2001, [PA State Representative] Lawless gained nationwide media attention when he began an effort to withhold state funding for Penn State University because of "Sex Faire," a student event featuring information on cervical cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, and safe sex practices that he labeled "classless acts of debauchery." The event also had games such as "orgasm bingo" and an "erotic-foods-guaranteed-to-turn-you-on" table. Lawless and a video crew attended the event, where he filmed tables with literature he labeled pornographic and "gingerbread men and women with artful icing." During the university's annual budget hearing, Lawless and several other legislators grilled Penn State President Graham Spanier on the event. During the 4 hour hearing, Lawless played the much-hyped 5 minute tape that he made at the event, causing several legislators to remark it its relative tameness. State Rep. Dan Frankel told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette "No, I wasn't offended. You can find worse things in advertisements in some mainstream publications." State Rep. Babette Josephs said "I was very underwhelmed. This is what it was all about?," blaming the controversy on "somebody, it seems to me, with a problem in his personality and it gets played out because he is in a position of power." In a contentious moment, Lawless told Spanier of a Penn State student who made fun of his facial disfigurement in an e-mail message; Spanier responded by noting that the student had complained to a threatening call from Lawless. In the end, the legislature continued to fund Penn State University.-- Wikipedia entry on John A. Lawless.
Sorry but i don’t think that was the case. After all, Paterno has remained a Republican and has stated he didn’t vote for Obama even though one of his sons did. If what you typed were true, if Paterno changed in order to go along with a perceived shift in the market, then it would have certainly been to his advantage to have embraced Obama and the democrat party since there can be little doubt that most of his players would have voted for Obama and more than that probably have a negative reaction to the word “Republican”.
You have any idea of how mush dapravity is allowed to exist at Penn State? Do a web search on the “Penn State C@ntFest”. Replace the @ sign with a U. This so called festival goes on every year at Penn State. The campus is a stinking hedonist hell hole. It atracts the most vile debauched low life scum bags on the planet.