Joe Paterno Fired

From the Las Vegas Sun: Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.
But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.
Speaking at his house to students, Paterno said, "Right now, I'm not the football coach, and that's something I have to get used to."
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after Paterno announced that he planned to retire at the end of his 46th season.
But the outcry following the arrest of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on molestation charges proved too much for the board to ignore.
One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn't go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower.
Paterno says he should have done more. Spanier has said he was not told the details of the attack.
Sandusky has denied the charges.
Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley will serve as interim coach while Rodney Erickson will serve as interim school president.
Earlier in the day, Paterno said in a statement he was "absolutely devastated" by the case, in which Sandusky, his onetime heir apparent was charged with molesting eight boys in 15 years, with some of the alleged abuse taking place at the Penn State football complex.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/09/penn-state-trustees-fire-football-coach-joe-patern/
I'm kind of torn on this. First, the case is almost 10 years old and the facts certainly have not played out. There hasn't been a preliminary hearing or heard what the defense is. The facts of the case have not come out yet. Paterno has been exonerated by the DA and the police of wrong doing. We also don't know the details of what Paterno knew. Did he just know the basics or did he know much more?
Further, Paterno has been coach of Penn State for 46 years and has maintained a clean football program throughout and he deserves a little better than this.
On the other hand, if the case is as bad as the DA says it is, then of course Paterno should be fired and even charged with failing to report the ex-coach/pervert to the cops.
Somehow, I think the true story is somewhere in between- Paterno knew something was wrong but he didn't know or want to believe something bad was going on and that he had little information to go on.