[af_vet_rr]

I think Paterno is an honest and decent guy who is cooperating because it is the right thing to do.

He's also a grandfather many times over.

And yet he knew that a pedophile still walked freely and never saw the inside of a jail for many years afterward.

I'm a grandfather. If I knew of a pedophile walking freely, even if I didn't have specifics, and I told my bosses, and they did nothing, and the guy was still walking around, I'm not going to wait for the guy to die of old age, I'm going to talk to the cops.

[Tribune7]

And yet he knew that a pedophile still walked freely and never saw the inside of a jail for many years afterward.

Knowing and suspecting are different things.

The matters involving Sandusky that likely came to Paterno's attentions were the 1998 one which was investigated by police who ended it by just giving him a warning not to shower with kids; and the 2002 one which ended with university administrators saying they investigated it, found it to be horseplay and that Sandusky couldn't bring kids to the facilities anymore.

I'm not sure what Paterno could have done.

And I do think there is something seriously corrupt with Penn State.

[livius]

I lived in a college football town for a few years, and I can tell you, the coach and anybody he annointed could have been out raping women and children all over town and nobody would have said a word about it.