STATE COLLEGE, PA — Penn State previously announced it will honor its beloved former football coach Joe Paterno on Saturday during its home game against Temple, and today the University revealed it will, in fact, acknowledge the child abuse scandal that led to the coach’s ouster in 2011.
“So much of the focus from outside the Penn State community has been on Joe supposedly enabling child sexual abuse under his watch for decades,” said university president Eric Barron. “What they never talk about is how Joe hasn’t enabled a single thing for nearly five years. Check the record.