Hard to say. It’s probably significant that Spanier wasn’t allowed to resign. Maybe PSU is getting ready to deny certain post-employment benefits? Or maybe the university thinks that it improves their defense toward the inevitable lawsuits? Who knows?
People saw.
People knew.
A few people even talked.
But ultimately it got swept under the rug for years because of the rush to Saturday, those autumn game days when people funnel MONEY into Happy Valley for the biggest thing in the state.
Spanier, like many other big-time college Presidents is/was so much like a KING in his domain. No one DARES to question him, and EVERYONE sucks up to him.
His word is law on Campus, and especially in the town around. You don’t want to have your biz, or your campaign for local office BLACK-LISTED by the liberals running the school, do you?
Your sister needs a job? We might have something in Administration for her, IF you play along...
This is as much a problem of the Culture that allowed it, as it is the scandal itself.
1. They have to get Spanier out since he has vowed to defend the honesty and integrity of Curley and Schultz with PSU money and there is no way to clean house when you have a president stating the house isn't dirty.
2. This may be a way for them to not to have to pay Spanier's upcoming legal bills.
I'd be almost willing to bet that the parents of the boys who were assaulted by Sandusky will end up owning a large part if not all of PSU