TPG,
While I agree with many of your points I also disagree with some of them too.
1. Yes, they are not Gods.
However, they also loved being put up on that pedestal, maybe their own narcissistic tendencies are at vault regarding this tragic outcome.
Sorry, but Joe Pa, at the end of his life acknowledging he should have done more is not enough. Many people when they are about to meet their maker have regrets, that doesn't give them a pass for their inactions.
I think that is what you are missing. He knew. He remained silent for over a decade. Many people can't forgive his lack of action caused lifelong emotional pain that no amount of money can cure to God knows how many kids.
He placed his needs above innocent victims. He cared more about the program where he was known to value integrity than his own integrity. For that I have pity for him. I think his loyalty to PSU and his players was misplaced.
2. I agree the Trustees should be replaced, without a doubt.
I say this because PSU, regardless of their FB program is respected nationally from an academic perspective. Parents will spend up to 125K+ (OOS) for their child's education. They need to trust the administration at PSU.
3. I agree the FB program should not be ended. They are already paying the price and will for yrs., because not only due to the trial, but since Joe Pa died, high quality players would have likely gone somewhere else due to the fact of uncertainty. Next yr., high quality players will not want to go PSU when the team is rebuilding. It takes yrs to bring back a quality team.
This is on top of the fact that high quality coaches will not want to be associated with PSU.
What does that mean? It means loss of televised games, and sold out stadiums. Loss of revenues.
Another poster stated PA residents should be ready to open their checkbooks. Maybe so, but for a different reason than the intention in their post. PSU has insurance, they have endowments, they can cover the costs, drain, their accounts, but still make it. They don't realize everytime PSU plays a FB game on ESPN, or any network, they got money. Go to a bowl game, more money. If PSU is a losing team, that impacts them financially. That is before you talk about apparel sales, or refreshments, parking, etc. The FB team is no longer the cash cow.
4. I am not a PA resident, I can understand the anger to Corbett, since he was the AG, if I am correct.
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/162305266.html
Corbett called "absolutely false" news reports that his office had initially assigned just one investigator because most were tied up in public-corruption probes. He said even Bureau of Narcotics agents worked on the Sandusky case. And when he became governor, Corbett said, he added state police resources to the probe.
His role as ex-officio Penn State trustee is mentioned in a paragraph of the 267-page report issued Thursday by former FBI chief Louis Freeh. The report said some trustees recalled that during a conference call on whether to fire Paterno, some asked "if the governor was still on the phone line, as he was quiet during parts of the call."
Other trustees told Freeh's investigators that Corbett was more "vocal"; one said he urged "decisive action or there might be a loss of support for Penn State."
Corbett on Thursday confirmed one quotation in the report. "I made no recommendation," he said, "other than at the end. Before the vote, I said: 'You have to remember the children.' "
You know how bureaucracy works, Do you think as an AG he handled every single case? He oversaw, yes, but he did not intimately know every single case in the AGs office. To hold him to that standard in my opinion, is wrong. When they present proof that he knew there were multiple victims and saw the handwritten notes and emails than I am with you. However, right now, nothing. He left the AG in 95, before Sandusky had his 1st and 2nd run ins (98 and 01) that was swept under the rug, by most accounts by PSU and their trustees. Returned as an AG in 08. He had 1 child investigation, but not a strong enough case to win, he had narcotics on it as an AG, and when he became Gov. 3 yrs later he placed the state police on it too.
Again, I am not a PA resident. I am sure there were tons of whispers, but what does an elected official do? Listen to whispers and waste tax dollars if they are just that...whispers?
JMPO.