Fuck Joe Paterno.
He served at the pleasure of the university.
If he feels his discharge was unjust: he can sue.
The meat of the matter is NOT Paterno.
From Wikipedia: "Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant, told Paterno in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky performing a sex act on a 10-year-old boy in Penn State football's shower facilities..."
McQueary, as I understand it, walked in on Sandusky and the boy and did squat to intervene.
Why isn't someone horsewhipping McQueary?
"Well, he followed procedure and reported what he saw to a superior."
Er, fuck procedure, fuck the law: If someone walks in on an adult using my five-year old nephew in such a way, I expect that someone to STOP the event, right then and there.
If *I walk in on an adult using a child in such a way, someone will be hurt.
Let the police sort out the details AFTER you horsewhip the pervert.
'Poor Joe Paterno', indeed...
*This, by the way, is not a 'moral' issue, but simply 'my' distaste for the predatory use of innocents...distaste in no small way fueled by my own love of my nephew...I don't give a shit what the law (civil or religious) has to say on the matter.