Realistically, there isn’t much he could’ve done. He could have encouraged the actual witness to follow up with police (which he may have done - we don’t know). We know that he got the witness together with the police commissioner. We don’t know what happened after that.
Reasonable people (read: *not* most of his critics in this thread) wanted him to “follow up” more than he did. There might be some merit to that. I don’t know. It’s very difficult to say what you should or shouldn’t do if you aren’t a witness. Paterno had no idea what actually happened. He did exactly what he was *legally* supposed to do.
That is what I thougt—thanks