Thats pretty lousy of a former PSU president and it casts a shadow... but more importantly than that, a man who allowed children to be molested through inaction is being found guilty of a crime. If it stands, we should all applaud justice being served rather than line up behind Penn state. I mean, for ****s sake guys.
If you want to pontificate about who "allowed" children to be molested, then Seasock, Lauro, and Raykovitz should be at the top of the list. These are "trained" professionals in child psychology/behaviour/abuse that were apparently unable to put the pieces together. Seasock/Lauro's reports not only got it wrong, but by finding it unfounded they kicked the legs out from under Gricar/police from filing or prosecuting. Raykovitz's advice to wear swim trunks is absurd even if nothing was going. The advice should have been not to shower with kids at all, just like Jerry himself falsely promised in 1998.
If you believe McQueary's testimony that he believed he witnessed sodomy, then he is one person that witnessed a crime and walked away to leave a kid to spend the rest of the evening with Sandusky. Justice is not served when the prosecution makes those guys the witnesses to cast blame at someone else feet. If McQueary, Raykovitz, Lauro skate because they just made a poor decision or fumbled the ball then Spanier is no different. Had Spanier been convicted of conspiracy then I'd perhaps feel differently, but he was acquitted of that. If inaction is the bar for guilt, then McQueary, Dranov, MM Sr, Raykovitz, and Heim all did less so there is no celebration when the people closest to Sandusky or that directly witnessed what he did are given more deference for their mistakes that also contributed to Sandusky not being stopped sooner.