[tired&retired]

“Paterno knew”

I don’t think so. Paterno was a straight shooter. As straight as they come. I was a professor at Penn State and I watched him for years. I didn’t like him as a coach as he was too old school and not a strategist, but as far as I am concerned, he would bench his starting quarterback for breaking the rules even if it was a championship game. He was a by the rules great guy.

[nickcarraway]

And he had no idea why the best defensive coordinator in the game suddenly retired, when he was either supposed to take over for Paterno or be head coach somewhere else? Come on, Paterno knew him well, he was his boss since Sandusky was 22. He didn't know why a type-A person at the top of his game suddenly retired in his prime? Nonsense.

It's one thing to sit your QB in a bowl game because he misbehaved. Apparently, it's another thing to have your whole legacy washed away in a pedophilia scandal.

[IrishBrigade]

‘I don’t think so.’

that depends on how you’re defining ‘he knew’...of course he knew after the McQueary conversation, though obviously by this time Jerry was out of the football program...but Joe testified to a grand jury that he was not aware of a 1998 cop investigation of a mother’s complaint about Sandusky; this may be true, but in my opinion it beggars belief that someone notorious for micromanaging his program would be unaware that his top coach was being looked at by the cops...

[scrabblehack]

He knew when to stop asking questions so as to retain his plausible deniability.