oops, I should know better than to post about a story I haven’t been following closely and know very little about.
I don’t know a lot about Penn State but I do know a lot about how institutions handle bad behavior on the part of a ‘high value’ individual. Usually the messenger gets removed in some way, e.g., fired, bypassed, transferred. Then the institution finds a low value individual behaving in a similarly bad way and makes sure it documents that they have zero tolerance for that kind of behavior. All the while the record for the high value individual is very carefully orchestrated to be clean.
In this case the GA was promoted to receivers coach and became the head of recuiting after the incident.
This is another way to gain silence.