Wow, what a complex issue! It wasn't exactly a 'football scandal', but almost everyone involved closed their eyes after doing the minimum and hoped it would all go away and not become a football scandal....and it is amazing that they managed to get by for a dozen years. I suppose 'they' (meaning everyone who knew Sandusky was a problem) thought that his 'retirement' meant there was no more problem....and that eventually became the problem.
   He still had access to boys, and still had access to Penn State facilities...and if nothing had happened to out him, he might have been considered to replace the aging Paterno.

Sheesh...even the police who knew the basic facts avoided doing anything! Everyone who knew saw that exactly this result would happen, and pretended that it was all 'taken care of. They wanted to believe that Sandusky was 'ok', and just tried not to see the deeper problem.

I think the regents did what they needed to, even though Paterno and several others will probably avoid direct criminal prosecution. It's too bad that lying to one self is not a crime.