Dave Zirin, the best sportswriter in the United States, has written a fine article on this. http://www.thenation.com/blog/164433/college-footballs-logic-why-joe-paterno-and-penn-state-would-shield-child-molester College athletics (and universities in general) are such cesspools, in terms of how they are run. An athlete who takes a little cash is a criminal. Workers who try to unionize are treated like criminals. Joe Paterno, he's treated like a god. But he, the university president, and other top administrators are all scum.