Avery;4234826 said:
It wouldn't have been an issue had he done the right and human thing to begin with.
His legacy will be tarnished by this, but he also brought this upon himself.
You really don't believe he thought he was doing the right thing by taking information that he was told about sexual activity and going immediately to his superior and the head of campus police?
CPS should have been informed, but i sincerely believe he thought he did the right thing and he thought they really had investigated the matter as they told him they did. After the lied to him several times, it would be hard to imagine he could have somehow known he was being repeatedly lied to by men he'd worked with for years.
I think after everything settles down, people will start focusing their energy on the people most responsible.. Sandusky, Schultz, Curley, and Spanier. Paterno still contributed to the mess, but he's done so much more good over his entire life for him not going to the right officials to end up being the only thing people remember him for. That won't be how it ends up, imo.
He was told about one incident in this entire string of incidents that occured and he took that information immediately to the people he thought could take care of it. Then when this whole thing played out and he and everyone else learned just how big this thing really was and the full extent of how evil a man and how heinous the crimes that Sandusky committed really were.. he expressed deep regret and he will live with a heavy heart for many years over this. His immediate retirement announcement proved he wanted to do the right thing and step down and try and protect that name of the University.
He isn't the only one shocked in all of this. Everyone coming forward that has ever known Sandusky is completely floored and shocked. Hopefully we can all learn something from everything that ends up transpiring, but for now all of them have to go. McQueary needs to be next.
