My name is Murrell, and I'm going to try and make this my last post on Joe Paterno, unless new information comes out. Don't feel sorry for Joe Paterno. How much is really being punished by getting fired? His coaching career was coming to a close anyway. I saw one report say that Penn State may have to pay him the rest of his contact because he's not been accused of anything criminal, but it's not like I've read his contract to know that for sure. So other than a tarnised legacy, how much has he really lost?
And how on Earth does McCreary still have his job? He's the one who witnessed the shower incident and chose to leave and call his Dad. Had he spoken up then, he'd be protected under whistle-blower laws had he gotten fired. That's doesn't apply now. If you fire the coach and school president for failure to act, you have to fire the one who saw it with his own eyes.
To do nothing more than tell Sandusky to not bring kids on campus is beyond words...and they didn't even enforce that. He brought another kid to practice in 2007 and they were seemingly ok with it. They didn't even take his office away. Paterno didn't even question Sandusky about the incident. Feel bad for the children, especially the ones that might have been spared this tragedy had Joe Pa and his crew done something