While these things are in fact true, my position has ALWAYS been that Joe was a VERY old man, who came from a long lost generation that did not understand the crime of pedophilia: In his day, those sick people were regarded as insane, rather than the monsters who destroy the lives of children....My position has always been that Joe doesn't understand the level of the crime, and acted just like any man who was born long before the great depression in America. Again, many things can be true at the same time.
While it doesn't exonorate Joe totally full stop, it explains how he was bound to mishandle the situation. Those who understand generations of society in America, forgive Joe, now that a quarter century of time has passed.
The problem, again, are these dinosaurs who insist on supporting a child predator and pedophile because they cannot rectify what happened in reference to the deity named Joe Paterno, they continue to bow down to. Frankly, I still hold out hope and pray that one day they will all be gone from our fan base. They are the problem.