[SeminoleCounty]

Good points. Paterno was routinely attacked by the media...especially the sports media...when he was the only one who reported the abuses. His superiors knew about it, and failed to do anything.

Also, not only Paterno was attacked because the media wanted to defend a pro-homosexual administrator.....they were also keeping under wraps the Syracuse pedophile scandal....which ESPN sat on that info for years. Many of ESPN top reporters and announcers are Syracuse grads.

Paterno will be vindicated. The PSU admins and their attorney can’t cross-examine a dead guy....and many around PSU still support JoePa

[Straight Vermonter]

Paterno was routinely attacked by the media...especially the sports media...when he was the only one who reported the abuses. His superiors knew about it, and failed to do anything.

The emails suggest that Curley changed his mind about reporting it after a conversation with Paterno. I wonder what changed his mind?

[Scoutmaster]

Paterno was routinely attacked by the media...especially the sports media...when he was the only one who reported the abuses. His superiors knew about it, and failed to do anything.

No. From the emails, we're finding out that Paterno was involved in the cover-up. He certainly helped talk Curley out of reporting Sandusky to Child Welfare. From Penn Live (and the same email is quoted in many other sources)

The report, focusing on a series of emails after McQueary's initial reports about the incident, suggested that shortly after receiving them, then Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs Gary Schultz developed a three-part plan to talk with Sandusky; contact the Second Mile — the youth charity Sandusky founded; and inform child welfare authorities.

But that plan was put on hold, the report stated, Feb. 27, when Schultz received an e-mailed reply from Athletic Director Tim Curley — apparently after a discussion with head football coach Joe Paterno — in which Curley suggests talking with Sandusky directly before alerting any outside authorities.

"After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday, I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps," CNN quoted Curley as saying in an email. Curley indicated, according to the report, that he planned to talk with Sandusky and also contact The Second Mile, but not necessarily the child welfare office if Sandusky cooperated and got professional help.

Many around PSU still support JoePa and always will, even if he talked Curley out of reporting Sandusky to child welfare, or was part of the two-man determination not to report Sandusky to child welfare.

The Paterno/Curley plan was then approved, although from the emails, Spanier was concerned about the consequences if it were discovered PSU did not contact child welfare.