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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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?
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You don't think he thought of that? I mean, did Paterno really not consider any consequences when he made his choices? Did he never consider that if the scandal ever came out that it would affect his legacy?
Either way, it's still a matter of having a coach care about his legacy more than spending considerable time in prison for the deterrent to be effective. I'd wager the list of coaches that think that are very, very slim.