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Originally Posted by Aytumious
I honestly don't know how anyone could think it was remotely reasonable for Paterno to not follow up on this. His behavior was despicable even if he didn't commit a crime. How do you hear information like this about a coach that was your defensive coordinator for 22 years and whom you know has a foundation that purportedly helps young boys and not get to the bottom of it, guilty or innocent?
What a piece of ****.
Hindsight is 20/20. People scratch their head that a football coach can be treated as a "living legend" and then act outraged when it turns out that he is just a football coach.
There are people that have blinders on; that alone does not make them a bad person. There are people that just do not like to get involved; that alone does not make them a bad person. Usually, these people just do their best to follow the rules and mind their own business.
However, I do agree with you that there comes a point that a line is crossed and anyone connected to this needs to act to see that someone is really looking into it. It is not so obvious that said point was crossed here, but it seems like one can make a reasonable inference (under whatever definition they choose).
Also, keep in mind that once these details started leaking out, Sandusky was not in the football program but was essentially a "made man" within the University. The football program could not do anything to him - they could not even prevent him from bringing kids on campus with him.
So, it is not THAT easy to do something as it seems one would have to take a pretty serious hard line to set up a "us v. him" situation. All I am saying is that it is not as easy as one might think.