[Husker] In defense of JoePa

[Tommy Thompson]

I don't have all of the facts on the Sandusky scandal, but I wonder if Joe Paterno isn't getting wrongly vilified.  From what I have read, the grad student informed JoePa of what he had seen, and JoePa reported it to his superiors.  After his superiors "investigated" the incident, including speaking with the grad student, they cleared Sandusky of any wrong doing.  Following that trail of logic, JoePa would have assumed it was a false allegation and would have (rightly) done nothing further.

Again, I don't know all of the facts, so JoePa may have known: 1) that the allegations were not really investigated; 2) that the university was covering it up; and/or 3) that the grad student have given him specific information that should have led him to contact the police (or at least instructed the grad student to do that)

Bottom line is that I'm not going to judge anyone in this until all of the facts come out.  It's very possible that JoePa did due diligence, which is why he is not under investigation.

Tommy Thompson (Pa)
"GO BIG RED"