It's hard to imagine being any more disgusted by Sandusky, Paterno, the people running Penn State or its fan base. This latest shameless display illustrates the wisdom of destroying that damned statue, there is absolutely no legitimate reason to preserve it.
The thing that gets me is that there CAN BE such a thing long-term as 'redemption' or 'a change in perspective.' This was going to take a long time for the historical revisionism to occur, but for some......what I can only call insanely pathetic reasoning...it's like Penn State is hellbent, bound, and determined to resurrect the dead man's dead reputation as quickly as possible. Not even let ANY time pass at all.
The only thing I've thought bordered on 'overreach' here was the NCAA removing his wins total - and that's because I think that's a ridiculous 'penalty' anyway. Like it or not, he still won those games just as Alabama really did win all those games we 'vacated' in 1993 and 2005-2007.
If Penn State had not been in an all fire hurry to change history, it would have happened eventually. If the Paterno apologists had just gone into hiding for about a decade, they could have come out gradually and rehabilitated his reputation SOMEWHAT by characterizing it as 'people really went overboard at the time.' In all honesty, when this story FIRST broke in 2011 (Sandusky's indictment blew up the news on the day of the infamous LSU-Alabama regular season game that year), I thought the targeting seemed to damned quick - until a day or so later as more and more began to trickle out...and even Paterno was trying to dictate the terms of his execution...it became obvious they just didn't get it.
Part of me can actually be just the tiniest bit sympathetic with the 'in shock and not getting it' - INITIALLY.
The problem is that Penn State and the Paterno boot lickers have spent five years demonstrating that they REALLY don't get it, that this was just some poor, unfortunate, rogue guy that they had no idea about when plenty of evidence has come forth that they enabled it to a very strong degree.
The more they are determined to resurrect 'ole Joe's sterling reputation,' the more they are hoisting their long-term reputations on a petard.