Like Bossku said up above, living in central PA, I am flooded with stories on this. Every news story everywhere is about this scandal. Here's a great op-piece I found on Paterno's retirement:
http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-foo..._lnk3%7C111273
I think the writer hit it head on.
What saddens me is the mentality of the people in the comments, and sadly that represents a lot of the people in this area. "Joe didn't do anything wrong. He did what he was supposed to do." Because they're such big PSU supporters, they look at this whole thing with their Penn State blinders on, and only see "JoePa" as a football god who can do no wrong. They can't objectively look at the entire case, and image if it was their 10 year child, and finding out that JoePa had known about the possibilty of Sundasky being a pedophile for years, and then see if Paterno's actions would satisfy them.
The other big defense of Paterno they throw out there is that the AG isn't pursuing him. But if they had paid attention during the press conference the other day, the Attorney General said that "Joe Paterno is not a target of our investigation
at this time." I would imagine if they find good evidence that a cover up did occur, Paterno will be facing charges as well. Right now, other than Sandusky, the two others facing charges are simply perjury charges. Nothing related to a cover up, YET.
Another side note, I read someone point out that the results of the three year grand jury investigation and subsequent charges weren't announced until the week after Paterno reached 409 wins, setting the record for most wins in NCAA Division I football (which occurred 10/29/11; AG report and Sandusky arrest 11/5/11). Coincidence? At this point, I can't help but wonder...