Here's what I am left with after hearing some of the testimony against three former Penn State executives yesterday on charges connected to the Jerry Sandusky fallout.
It has nothing to do with Graham Spanier, the school's former president who now faces charges that he covered up the whole thing, along with two key aides. It has nothing to do with Mike McQueary, the former assistant football coach who lit match to this powderkeg when he witnessed something involving Sandusky and a young boy in a shower. And hard to believe, it does not even have anything to do with the legendary Joe Paterno, the coach whose role in this mess led to his firing and ugly downfall. He died just a few months later. Instead I am thinking about this: How long do you think it will take Penn State to get past this? Will the school ever recover. For years, when you heard the words Penn State, you thought of football, of blue and white, and their legendary coach. Now when I hear the words Penn State, I am just as likely to think of Jerry Sandusky and all the sordid detail that entails. Maybe it's just me. I certainly hope so. So my question is this? Will Penn State ever get past Jerry Sandusky?
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