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So the loss of legacy in football games is a greater deterrent than the jail time people are going to get for perjury? Interesting theory.
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For Paterno, at least, it's clear that winning football games was more important than protecting children from being raped, so I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that threatening one's legacy would be a very powerful deterrent. If someone had approached Paterno in 1998 and said, "If you don't blow the whistle on Sandusky, your next decade's worth of wins will be struck from the record books. Also, the university's football program will be ruined," do you think he would have still helped with the cover-up?