The Penn State board was and is doing their job. Their job is not to investigate, to arrest, to plead or find guilty. Their job is to do their best to help the college, and in this case that means to try to manage the damage. It’s foolish, and a distraction, to bring them into the horror of the child rape that seems to have happened there.
Attempting a whitewash with as obvious a shill as the man who falzely accused Richard Jewel in the Olympic Bombing not only does not decrease the damage, it rightly opens the board, the University, and their defenders to ridicule.
They should have gone for at least a pretense of credibility instead of a disgraced bumbler to head the investigation.
Then they fired him when trouble broke out.