Paterno's position was head football coach, not head detective. He took the story his assistant coach told him to those who were responsible and were indicted after a three year investigation.
My point was that Paterno would have morphed into "head detective" in a nanosecond had that been his own son in the locker room....
You’re wasting your time. There are some people who refuse to see what the lib media, the lib BOT, the lib school Admin (which wasn’t always like this prior to Spanier being named President), are trying to do.
You and I and tens of thousands of other people know Paterno reported hearsay to the proper channels...legally required channels, but it doesn’t matter. The media shaped this story to their agenda, just like they did with the Duke fake rape case. I was shocked then that normally constitutional conservatives were out for blood and refused to see what the media was doing to those three wrongly accused men.
IMO it’s the same with Paterno and this case. The Media took down a coach who couldn’t stand the media, a coach who did to the best of his ability to provide an academic environment for his players, Success with Honor, donated his time and money for the benefit of the University and the students he loved, and was one of the most positive influences in higher education.
He was a Republican and a Conservative and the media hated that.
He’s done more for Penn State. and its many athletes and students, than any other human being and he’s being vilified for being an old man who didn’t “do enough” since we all know we all would have done so much more if we were told something second hand. rme.
I find it sorta funny that those who claim he was all powerful at Penn State and could have done more are the same people who can’t believe his arrogance of wanting to retire and his saying he’d retire at the end of the season and was summarily fired, as a scapegoat, by those truly in charge of Penn State.
Paterno had very little power once Spanier became President, the President who wanted to make Penn State the most gay friendly university and did everything he could to take Penn State away from the conservative university it once was. The Penn State Admin and BOT, along with powerful politicians in PA have been trying to get rid of Paterno for close to two decades because he didn’t fit in with their agenda.
It’s disheartening to me but not that all surprising anymore.