No, but PSU probably prevented a loss of athletic talent. If the acting defensive coordinator at Penn State had been removed in 1998 for molesting boys, or arrested in 2000 for orally sodomizing a boy in the football showers, or arrested in 2002 with the former acts becoming public, it likely would have affected PSU's recruting.
But not as much as this is going to do.
So if you see any loss in recruiting athletic talent by PSU over the next few years, just imagine something like that would have happened with the arrest of Sandusky, but on a smaller scale in 2002, and a much smaller scale in 2000, and a much, much smaller scale in 1998.
You bring up points that I do not agree with. By cleaning out a gay coach and firing everybody involved they could have claimed to have the cleanest football program that side of California. LOL.
It makes sense to me that some of the players knew and said nothing. Perverts like Sandusky can’t operate without drawing suspicion. So....
I wonder if the gay attorneys had some people nervous about this matter. Darn, if you don’t agree with them you’re classified as a homophobe and then they try to throw you out of a job. Those perverts have perverted out system.