re: Just Watched "Happy Valley" on Netflix

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Paterno did what he was expected to do. He reported it. Did he do enough? That's a moral judgement you have to make.

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There is a serious problem if anyone thinks there is a judgement to be made. To be told that someone you work with closely every day was having sex with a little boy in the shower, every person with knowledge of it should be held accountable. "Doing my job" is not enough when there is extremely serious criminal activity occurring in your department with your knowledge. This is why I am fine with how harsh the NCAA was initially on them. It showed that the administration "protected" (even if that was by no action) the football program thus the football program deserved punishment.

As great of a coach he was, he could have helped save many kids from absoulte trauma and he didn't . Many things are more important than football.


ETA: What you said with what I am trying to explain is exactly why they should hvae been nailed to the wail. It was the football and school administration that failed to a serious degree.

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The NCAA went too far, they knew it. Their job is to regulate athletics and academics. Not be administering penalties for crimes. Baylor wasn't punished for teammates killing each other. They were punished for scholarship violations. UK wasn't punished for mail fraud, but for sending money to a recruit and taking tests for recruits.

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All these examples show them hitting the schools for the failure of the football programs. Not the criminal behaviour of the players that the program had no knowledge of or had anything to do with.