As for Paterno: If you are going to provide complete coverage of a scandal, mentioning the name of the alleged molester might be a great start. The media crucified Paterno, and then he was tried by said media. The BoT took the rumors and the hype the media had provided and used that as a basis for firing.

As for McQueary: why isn’t anyone calling for his head(obviously they are as he won’t be at the game Saturday) in all this. McQueary should be tried for failure to report the molestation of a child. McQueary saw a young boy being fondled in the shower, and all he did was tell his father first? I call bull crap. Then he allegedly had to think about what he was going to do before he told Paterno. All sounds sketchy to me, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this goes deeper into the faculty.

The Board of Trustees, in my opinion, did Joe Paterno and the university a disservice. By releasing him along with former President Graham Spanier, the Board implies that Paterno is also guilty, even though he did his job and what he believed to be right, by informing his superiors of what had taken place. Not once during the Board’s ENTIRE press conference, was Jerry Sandusky’s name uttered.

Next, people really need to get the right information provided them — Sandusky was NOT a member of Paterno’s coaching staff when the single incident in question occurred; he was retired, but still had keys and full access to the Lasch Football Building and team locker rooms. This is the reason why Paterno did not handle the incident within the realm of the Athletics Department, but instead referred the incident to administrators, stating to them what graduate assistant Mike McQueary recounted to him (Paterno), that he had seen Jerry Sandusky in the Lasch Building showers fondling or doing something of a sexual nature to a young boy. Later, during the Grand Jury hearing, Curley testified that McQueary reported “inappropriate conduct” that made him “uncomfortable.” To which Schultz translated to be “disturbing” and “inappropriate.” Former University President Graham Spanier recounted the event as, “Jerry Sandusky in the football building locker area in the shower with a younger child and that they were horsing around in the shower.”

While I do believe that Paterno had a moral obligation to inform authorities which he did not fulfill, this does not give right to anyone to vilify him as if he committed the act of sexually assaulting these poor children.