You don't think Penn State fans think about what the kids felt like. That is first in foremost in all of our minds. YOU are putting the sins of one man on the entire institution and the people who make that institution. Further, you do so without any knowledge of the facts. Do you not think that Penn State fans might have a much better and clearer understanding of the facts and the people involved?
The problem is that for some reason, people like you want to put everything on Paterno or somehow tie it to football. It has absolutely nothing to do with football. If it was found out that a former defensive coordinator was a Pedophile, how would that have effected the football team? Even with what happened we are sitting at #4 right now, so that pretty much dispels any argument you can attempt to make in that.
The people who put this on Paterno as far as I am concerned, are people who are looking to somehow benefit from this on the football field. Because the fact of the matter, of everyone involved in the whole sordid affair, Paterno did more than anyone. I was never a Paterno fan, and I am still not really to be honest. I think he selfishly stayed on much longer than he should have. By doing so, he put a giant target on his and the programs back.
The fact is, there were people who were in a direct position to do something about Sandusky and failed to do so. Tom Corbett, the Governor of PA who went out of his way to attack Paterno was formerly the Attorney General of PA who PERSONALLY investigated Sandusky. He even convened a Grand Jury about Sandusky in 2009. You know what he did? NOTHING. Not only that he took campaign donations from 2nd Mile and when he became governor GAVE STATE MONEY to 2nd Mile. And yet, he was more than happy to throw it on Paterno, which is insane to me.
Numerous very rich, very wealthy and very connected people sat on the board of 2nd mile. You know what 2nd mile was allowed to do? Destroy all of its documentation, paperwork and anything having to do with the charity. Ya know, the place where all of the kids came from.
A D.A. investigated Sandusky in 1999 and came away and said there was no evidence to prosecute. Don't that that as me saying I think Sandusky is innocent, it is me saying that the DA clearly dropped the ball. And yet, people like you blame this on Paterno. The one and only person who did what he was supposed to do. Should he have done more knowing what we all know now? Sure, hell, so should have you, you could have taken a baseball bat up to State College and beat the hell out of him. We could have tied him to a rail and burned him to death. But we didn't know what we know now and unfortunately, people were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt not comprehending that the man was a monster.
