I got into a heated argument with someone last night about this.
This is someone who likes to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, not someone who worships college football.
He tried to argue that Paterno wasn't told exactly what happened--only about rough housing. I said even that should have been enough to get Sandusky tossed. A grown man inapporpriately rough housing with a ten yeat old in the locker room? That doesn't sound suspicious?
Then he said well Paterno is old he probably didn't understand the situation.
He tried to argue that Paterno met his responsibility by telling his boss. Not good enough. If his boss did nothing he should have followed up on it as should have the grad student and anyone he told.
He said that he'd feel his only responsibilty would be to tell his boss. I said no, that doesn't get you off the hook. You have a responsibility to follow up. He said in the day and age I could get sued for making such an accusation.
"Doing the right thing often requires risk. You still do the right thing." Then I added that if he ever wimped out on such an issue and did nothing I would make sure he suffered.
I talked to this man all the time, he loves his family and is a hard worker who considers himself conservative. But he's like so many others I encounter who don't even know they've been indoctrinated with progressive, liberal, new age garbage.
Then I watch the news late last night and see the story on the Penn St riots. Are you kidding me? One student was offended that Paterno was fired over the phone, another didn't think 40 years should go down the drain.
They should be rioting that their school covered it up.
