Sandusky retired in the summer of 1999 (presumably being forced out due to the 1998 investigation which EVERYONE knew about).
1. Paterno kept him on as his Defensive Coordinator for the next season.
2. Paterno watched as multiple organizations heaped award after award upon Sandusky.
3. Paterno watched as the players carried Sandusky off the field.
4. Paterno stated that Sandusky's departure was like having your son walk out the door.
When did Sandusky's contract end?
You are seriously, desperately trying to concoct this ‘conspiracy of Joe Paterno’ with dramatic broad brushes of speculation and desperate reaching.
It MAY have gone down like that, but at this point we have very little evidence that it DID go down like that. I will concede that Paterno should have followed up after the 2002 incident, but you act as if that because Paterno didn’t move heaven and earth to impale Sandusky on a spike in the public square that old Joe was the hub of some deep dark conspiracy.
Joe was a moral coward. No one disputes that. After the bar he set, he had every right to get booted out on his butt. But the willful conspiracy thing? You need to look at Curley, Schultz, Spanier, Waddell, the DA, the police, and possibly many many others and focus your outrage there. Until I hear and see more evidence, the Great Joe Paterno Deep Dark Pedophile Conspiracy is a bunch of delusion on people’s mind.
You all need to get your eyes of Paterno and start focusing on this very possible sex ring that Mark Madden was talking about. The obsessive fixation on Paterno is not going to help bring even one of the possible perps to justice.