Fire him. If a student does something immoral they are immediately dismissed. As a coach he had the obligation since he knew sandusky was investigated years earlier for the same type of charges.

Absolutely. Either he knew but washed his hands, and behaved reprehensibly, or he was out of step with appropriate responses these days, and is incompetent. Either way, this is a shameful end to an otherwise great career. Football does not matter more than child welfare. Really. No matter how much you are paid or how legendary you think you are. What horrid skewing led this seemingly decent man to neglect a clear duty?

He is a football coach that reported what he was told to the AD. Blame the AD and the President but not the man who reported the incident as he was supposed to.

It appears to me Paterno passed the buck onto his bosses and for whatever reason (s) didn't want to get further involved. Interesting to see what more comes out of this aspect of the story. In the end, for me the problem I have with Paterno is that both Sandusky and the grad assistant who is the eye witness, worked directly for and with Paterno. If you are a head coach of a team and are made aware of allegations like these, why would you want someone like Sandusky in contact with your players? Maybe he's got some dirt on Paterno or maybe it comes down once again to the almighty dollar and win-loss record instead of the welfare of student-athletes. Either way, it is a tragic story for the young boys who were victimized.

Who cares, we have pensions to cut, banners to keep and politicians to oust.

What the %$# is with these authority figures who ignore pedophilia - first the church, now this. Any decent person would have called the cops, not reported it to the bureaucracy. And if they'd just reported it to the bureaucracy and nothing was done, then they should have called the cops.

If a grown man is caught molesting a young boy anywhere else in our society I would like to think the person would go to the police or take immediate action to protect the boy...@ Penn State there was no police, no action to protect the boy and not even any follow up to see if the boy was OK??? This is a terrible indictment of the men involved...their relationships, reputations and the honor of Penn state came before the safety and well being of a young boy....
TERRIBLE!!!!! They should all go!!!!

In an advanced 21st C. society...why is it still murky to do the right thing?

PEDOPHILLIA...it is WRONG

he told the proper authorities. enough said.
i wouldn't want to involve myself personally with that quagmire.

No, he followed the law.

Followed what law? Penn Law? Proper authorities would be the State and Local Police or the Attorney General. Disgusting! It was said to be more than one boy and over a long period of time. Not want to be involved? How could anyone close their eyes to such a tragedy? I'm appalled.

They'll never fire Joe Paterno. Not in a million years.

Paterno needs to march himself into the high school where the kids bullied one of the victims and make an ernest effort to reverse the pathologically depraved culture that HE he helped foster.

Paterno's multi-million dollar comfort of adulation got expossed, and it wasn't pretty.

Sometimes Morality should supersede the law. He is an immoral , corrupt reprehensible person. He will be remembered as that, more than being remembered as a coach . He should only feel shame now.