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Originally Posted by valo403
Are you a PSU fan? The Paterno apologist routine is rather stunning.
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I'm really not being a Paterno apologist. I've never said that he should keep his job if he had reason to believe that Sandusky had abused anyone. If McQueary told him that he was sure that he saw Sandusky having anal sex with a child, Paterno should have been fired. If Paterno knew about the '98 allegation (combined with McQueary telling him anything about the 2002 incident, even if it was just "it looking like he might possibly have been doing something of a sexual nature"), Paterno should have been fired. We just don't know any of that yet. I'm not saying that what Paterno did was right - I'm saying that he deserved a chance to tell his side of the story before his life was ruined.
To answer your question though, I've always hated Penn State (other than, oddly enough, McQueary - I sat beside him for 2 hours while rooting for the Michigan basketball team to beat his Nittany Lions, and he couldn't have been nicer), but I did grow up in Pennsylvania and have been surrounded by people who look up to Paterno my whole life. He was always one of the good guys, and it would really be a tragedy to destroy his reputation over this if it ultimately turns out that he did nothing wrong. I guess I just don't see the harm in allowing the whole situation to have more than 5 days to play out.