Be careful with this people. This is a side-issue that merely shifts the focus from the university onto the deposed football coach. Paterno may face criminal & civil charges over his mishandling of the Sandusky-scandal — and that should be expected. But this is the kind of turf-battle that all coaches face. Seems to me like some petty payback. The real issues no are what the University did, or failed to do about Sandusky.
This “side-issue” is an example of what standards and conduct officers, compliance officials, and internal auditors deal with on a regular basis. They are the people designated to keep the university in line with laws and regulations and when they find a problem, they are frequently bullied or fired by upper-level administrators to keep it quiet. Eventually the situation continues and grows to the point it can’t be covered up anymore and it becomes a scandal.
And then everyone runs around asking “How could this have happened? Why didn’t anyone do anything?”
Be careful with this people. This is a side-issue that merely shifts the focus from the university onto the deposed football coach.
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Good point. They will villanize him and then Paterno will “die for their sins” (lung cancer at 84).