I personally don't understand how the average sports fan can't step back and evaluate it as NCAA football wins vs Child rape. We just had a ten win season, are any of those games worth a child rape? The whole season? 10 or 11 of these seasons put together? How many wins are valuable enough to equate to one child rape? What is the ratio?
Also, all the people saying he did so much more are rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!). He won football games. Any feeling or experience other than that is simply people being happy they were successful and enjoying other things more than they would have thanks to a little bit of that happiness implanting a feeling on something else. School was fun because I had fun on Saturdays type of thing.
All the people saying they chose PSU because of Paterno are Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) and frankly, probably just lucky they were accepted to any university. They should have this sense of feeling toward low entrance standards or some state law saying that all retards w/in state boarders can't be turned down by state schools. JoePa didn't fight for the retards. How could he be expected to care about retards, he didn't obvs care about kids at all.
This whole thing is silly. If paterno was a really rough ridin' awesome teacher or janitor at PSU, the entire nation would be begging science to find a way to bring him back so that he could be second on the dirty needle that kills Sandusky.
Seriously though, for all who want to overlook a small few events due to all other actions a person has done, maybe they should apply that to Sandusky? Couldn't it be said that Jerry didn't rape most of the kids that his large charity helped? Couldn't you then say that he helped far more than he harmed? Isn't helping the many worth the sacrifices of the few? At least in this example you could show something more worthwhile than winning a football game in that the charity provided kids with things they needed(not talking about child rape). Look, I don't believe this, but just trying to twist an example.