Why paterno should not be fired

Because of his status as an iconic coach on a football-crazed campus, Paterno commanded attention and could have demanded an investigation at any time. For nearly a decade after graduate assistant Mike McQueary allegedly witnessed Sandusky subjecting a year-old boy to anal intercourse, Sandusky had free reign of Penn State's football facilities.

According to published reports, Sandusky worked out in Penn State's weight room as late as last week. McQueary, who is now the team's wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, is still part of the Nittany Lions' staff. McQueary, who grew up in State College, Pa. Paterno's "Grand Experiment" was supposed to be a blueprint for how intercollegiate sports should work, a harmonious balance of academics and athletics, which would ensure that the players who enrolled at Penn State would be better men when they left.

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Corbett, first elected as Pennsylvania's 46th governor in , lost in a statewide election to Tom Wolf on Tuesday and will officially leave office in January He was a member of Penn State's board of trustees when the school decided to fire Paterno as a result of the Sanduksy sex abuse scandal.