Quote:How am I defending him when I said he should have done more? I've gone back and forth here enough to show my point of view. I will give you credit, you will continue to push and push more than Trav....you have taken the title as bulldog of the board.


There are many more articles out there than what you have given in this thread. You gave an opinion piece from an ESPN writer that wanted clicks on his story.


There are other articles that dive a lot deeper than that one did. If you want more information, it's out there.

"I thought the same way as many of you did until an older guy around Joe Paterno's age put it in perspective.


They were born and brought up in a different generation. Things were done differently when they grew up and a lot of things they would see just weren't talked about. He wasn't justifying what he did, but saying that his past could have made him not head straight to the police. He told his superiors about what he was told and thought it was enough.


I'm not saying Paterno shouldn't have run straight to the cops and told them, but he at least told his superiors about it who "investigated" it."


Maybe we have different definitions of defending. In the above you try to excuse his behavior because of the era he grew up in. You also said he thought it was enough. But as I pointed out he lied. There's no excusing that regardless of age or era he was born. He flat out lied and was part of the reason they didn't turn Sandusky into the police.


Should he have done more? Absolutely and to your credit something you have stated repeatedly. But he is actually part of the cover up. He not only didn't do more, he facilitated covering it up.

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