.like many well established coaches, they leave most of the p's and q's up to other people.
..a man of Paterno's age...simliar to my dad if he were alive...treated things like this differently...they are perplexed by it, rationalize it to be horseplay gone wrong, and hope that a "good talking too" will suffice....
who covered up what?....because the last I heard the chief prosecutor at the time of the intial incidences was Ray Gricar, who mysteriously drove his car to a river, and has not been seen since, persumed "drowned" but no body found....IIRC, that happened not to long before the SHTF.....
the people in State College have been following these stories for a couple of years before everything went national....
He disappeared on April 15, 2005.
That's seven years after one investigation and a few years before the next.
We should remember that, in 1998, Gricar had evidence only on a boy responsible for some of the fewest counts against Sandusky. Basically, Sandusky showered with the boy and bear-hugged 'to wash his hair.' Sandusky said there was no genital contact; even if the boy say there was, it would be his word (and only his word, as no other victims had come forward) against Jerry Sandusky, who at the time was the famous founder of The Second Mile, the acting defensive coordinator of Penn State (and had been for over 20 years and two national championships), a Penn State coach with over 30 years' tenure, and a former Penn State player.
I don't think Gricar believed he could convict Sandusky for an incident of showering - just showering - in front of a Happy Valley jury given how prominent Sandusky was at the time.
We should never forget, however, that Gricar's nephew said that Ray Gricar lived from 1998-2005 with a sour taste in his mouth toward PSU and, in particular, PSU football. Gricar felt he was stonewalled in his investigation by PSU football.