Why fire him? Oh, maybe for raping a child. Which is the same reason Paterno "encouraged" him to retire. Firing is not out of the question for a senior collage official, after all, Paterno was fired and he didn't rape anyone.
As I said in another post, either the assistant coach's allegation was false or they were true. If they were false, then the assistant should have been fired, but instead they encouraged Sandusky to retire.
Not true. Freeh even said that his retirement had nothing to do with the 1998 DPW investigation into his activities that the DPW mysteriously dropped for no apparent reason. Now if he had been indicted and convicted back then, then firing or forced retirement would have been a strong probability -- but Jerry Lauro and the DPW just dropped their investigation.
As I said in another post, either the assistant coach's allegation was false or they were true.
The way our system of justice works they have to be adjudicated false or true. And you do realize that the jury in the Sandusky trial found the allegation of child abuse for the 2001 incident irreverently wrapped around Paterno's neck to have been false. Sandusky was acquitted of it.