The alleged events that took place at Penn State have made several people upset, but the Nittany Lions will do everything in their power to protect one of college football’s most legendary coaches.
If you haven’t heard by now, which would be shocking since this is arguably the biggest scandal in sports history, former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky allegedly used a charity program to molest young children, and apparently some of these crimes happened in the Penn State locker rooms.
A Penn State graduate assistant witnessed Sandusky molesting a boy in the showers back in 2002, but instead of calling the police, he told school officials.
The logical thing to do would be dial 911, but he didn’t do it and neither did school administrators.
Penn State Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz have stepped down from their positions after being charged with perjury.
Their downfall was when they chose to ban Sandusky from bringing children to the locker room as opposed to reporting the incident the graduate assistant witnessed.
Paterno released a statement through PennLive.com, saying, “If true, we were all fooled.”
The 84-year-old has been the Penn State head coach since 1966, and they will make sure he doesn’t greatly suffer from this event.
It’s no secret that sports figures have long been protected for things they’ve done wrong, and the same could be said about movie stars and politicians.
We live in a corrupt world, and sometimes things happen that most people don’t agree with.
I’m not saying that Paterno deserves to get off scot-free.
If in fact he knew that Sandusky molested a child in the Penn State locker room showers and chose not to report it, he should certainly pay the price.
However, it is just too hard to believe that Penn State would sit idly by and let Paterno go out amidst this scandal.
Paterno has long said he will retire when he feels like it, and Penn State is okay with that. I highly doubt Paterno wants to call it quits in the middle of this scandal because the focus would be on that and not his career.
Granted, whenever he does step down as Penn State head coach this story will be mentioned. Of course, if he walks away now or at the end of the season then it raises eyebrows as to what Paterno actually knew back in 2002.
You can argue that Paterno should have done more, and you wouldn’t be in the wrong. However, the Nittany Lions will make sure their head coach is protected because Paterno has been their image for so long.
