[smoothsailing]

Anyway, Sandusky didn't get away with decades of homosexual pedophile rape because Joe Paterno and a couple of other university officials looked the other way - - Sandusky got away with homosexual pedophile rape for decades because a hundred people, including his family and friends, his Second Mile associates, university donors and benefactors, and reporters looked the other way.

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: RULE 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

Paterno is the easy target, that's why so many focus on him. Those that do are at a minimum, lazy. This was far more layered and complex than Paterno's reporting what McQueary told him to his boss Curry and also Schultz, the head of the campus police.

[bluetick]

So the Curry and Shultz families bought a study too?

[Alaska Wolf]

Paterno is the easy target

Easy? No, just the most well known. He was in essence the face of PSU. There weren't statues of the school president or athletic director on campus, were there?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Paterno's an easy, and appropriate, target because he made Penn State football a virtual fiefdom dedicated to his own persona, and then, the one time it really mattered, he played the good little bureaucrat and passed the buck.

He's a craven coward, and is only slightly less repugnant than the silly losers who keep trying to excuse his weakness.

Paterno was all ate up, as we say down south, with the sin of pride. God used his weakness to teach us all a lesson, if we choose to learn from it.