With all due respect, Paterno isn’t the university any longer. My big fear is that PSU’s board is going to bury as much of this as they can. They will even protect former administrators if need be. Spanier didn’t want to go up against Paterno. That was Spanier not fulfilling his legal duty in the Sandusky matter as much as it was Paterno’s moral failure.
Don’t forget, under PA’s child-abuse statute it was Spanier’s obligation to report. Paterno should have been fired. But Spanier’s failure goes direct to the University in a “legal” way that Paterno’s didn’t. And the University is now concerned with the civil liability aspect of this so they’re going to shift as much blame onto Paterno as they can.
With all due respect...Paterno is well deserving of “blame”.
The same guy who pushed around Spanier regarding the firing of this woman, enabled a child rapist to continue his activities on campus for years.
I am completely amazed people find this to be insignificant.
This is not “either” the administrators, “or” Paterno.
We can multi-task here, and correctly blame all of them all at the same time.