not tryin to start a fight, but please correct me if I am wrong..
from what I understand- the alleged abuse(not sayin I don’t believe it to be true) at the time was alleged...
once reported to Paterno, he passed that info on....
once this is info is passed on, and no one above takes action, I would assume that it either was investigated and concluded unfounded, or if I knew it were never investigated, I would assume that the politics of those in charge found Sandy above reproach and “politically” protected......
My understanding is that he followed chain of command on his knowledge of any allegations...
Except that Joe Paterno went on to hire the very eyewitness as the wide receivers coach & head of recruiting...and could have talked to him at any ensuing time (even a few years later) about what he observed...
It's not like Paterno was the weakest man on campus or anything. He had the ability to find out what happened -- and what didn't happen.
Your assumptions are sorry enough for the average campus football coach...and truly pathetic when you're talking about a campus semi-god like Paterno.
Two flaws with your argument:
1) The chain of command when it comes to boys getting buggered by a pervert is not the university bigwigs - it’s the cops
2) Joe demonstrated no interest in knowing what happened? That’s *willful* ignorance. He never came out in an interview and said, “I kept following up with the Dean and the Dean finally told me, ‘It’s all been investigated Joe - there’s nothing to it.’”
I apply a pretty simple standard here - what would *I* do if someone told me some sicko was buggering kids in the shower. I wouldn’t rest until the sicko was behind bars. I certainly wouldn’t “fire and forget” a complaint off to my boss and be done with it. Especially after you see NOTHING HAPPEN to Sandusky after the complaint was filed. How could he sleep at night?
It has to make you wonder what kind of man he really was.