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Originally Posted by Msmith
EagleRob, how do your take on this?
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Paterno admitted knowledge of Sandusky's behavior and claimed he didn't know the right way to respond to it so he reported it to the AD, but washed his hands of it thereafter. I agree with the NCAAs decision to strip him of credit for his wins and think the family should let it go. As an alum who paid to attend over ten years of games that were clearly wins at the time, I'm still waiting for my refund check to come in the mail...any day now I suppose. I think it was just to punish the football program (even though my fellow alums think it was too severe) and to convict Sandusky for each and every charge. But, I think Penn State fans are paying a good deal of the bill here, financially and emotionally. The year after the news broke was awful for the Penn State community but I'm proud that our alumni raised over $500,000 to donate to child sex abuse victims despite being called a child abuser by witch-hunting masses for being associated with the school. The Paterno family needs to let this go and accept that the great JoePa was a mortal with a fatal flaw like everyone else that walks this planet.