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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Actually, it seems everyone involved put the reputation of the football team above all those, and above the welfare of the children.
The motive of everyone involved in the cover up appears to have been to protect the football program. Severely punishing the football team is entirely appropriate.
The message it sends is that if you cover up something like this the damage to the football progam is going to be much worse than if they had done the right thing in the first place.
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I think your giving these guys far to much credit in terms of them working together towards a common goal of protecting the football program. I'm guessing it was more selfish reason that lead to everyone keeping quiet, since when faced with a situation like this people tend to look out for their own interest above anyone elses.
When Paterno first heard of the incident he probably went well here are my options. Do the right/moral thing and say something and probably get fired based on the fact that I hired the guy and public preception would probably be that I should have done something sooner/something to prevent it or say nothing and hope this blows over. When paterno's bosses found out about it they face a similar dilemma. Either way their name gets tarnished, they just took the easy way out in the hope that the story never saw the light of day.