Fuck this shit. I've tried to stay out of this, but most of you fuckers have no idea what you are talking about. You can't even get the basic facts right.

Sandusky was investigated by state and local law enforcement in 1998. The evidence they gathered should have been enough for an indictment, but the local prosecutor and PA AG (who is now the PA governor and member of the Penn State Board of Trustees) declined to prosecute. There is absolutely no evidence that Paterno knew about the 1998 investigation. In 1999, Paterno got rid of Sandusky for reasons that had nothing to do with Sandusky's pedophilia. They hated each other and hardly spoke to each other during the last ten years of Sandusky's coaching tenure. Even if Paterno had known about the 1998 investigation, he would have believed that Sandusky had been cleared, as there was no prosecution.

Only one of Paterno's sons was on the coaching staff and he got there as Sandusky was leaving. There is no reason to believe he would have known about 1998 either.

Sandusky maintained access to Penn State facilities because he negotiated emeritus status with Penn State upon his retirement in 1999. That sort of arrangement isn't unusual at any school were a coach has spent more than 30 years as a player and senior coach. It was rumored back then that Paterno didn't want Sandusky to receive emeritus status, but that he was ignored.

In 2001, Paterno did what he should have. He reported what McQueary told him to his superiors, including the administrator who had direct oversight of the Penn State Police Dept. It has also become pretty clear since November that McQueary did not tell Paterno everything that he saw in the showers. Because of the incomplete account, it is possible that Paterno didn't fully understand that anything of a sexual nature happened. He seems to have believed that nothing more than possibly inappropriate horseplay happened. Curley and Schultz also claim that McQueary did not tell them that anything of a sexual nature happened in the showers. McQuear's testimony and public statements have been inconsistent.

The Freeh Report was commissioned by the PSU Board of Trustees (remember that the current PA governor and former AG who declined to indict Sandusky) to deflect attention to their inaction. It was meant from Day One to hang all of this on a dead man. The Freeh Report was completed with baseless accusations and unsupported opinion without Curley, Schultz, Paterno, Sandusky or McQueary being interviewed. Both McQueary and Paterno asked to be interviewed by Freeh's team, but Freeh declined. I'm not sure how Freeh produced such an extensive report without interviewing any of the key players, but he did. The report served its purpose as it hung everything on Paterno in the court of media and public opinion.