Change at Penn State? "As late as last week, school officials were still attempting to shield the program"

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Penn State: Playing Without Fans

Posted: 07/25/2012 10:33 pm

Tik Root

But addressing the "culture of reverence" surrounding the program won't be as easy as removing the perpetrators. The problem runs deeper than any one individual, the coaching staff, or even the university's administration. The way football at Penn State is perceived needs to fundamentally change.

How tough of a task will making that change be? As late as last week, school officials were still attempting to shield the program. When the university's board of trustees met to debate the future of the Joe Paterno statue outside the football stadium, the discussion was not driven by sense of responsibility to the victims, but was rather it "centered on how the NCAA [would] interpret whatever decision [was] made."