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Months after Joe Paterno was fired as head coach for Penn State University’s football team, the New York Times is offering a glimpse as to how the decision was reached.
Some members of the Penn State Board of Trustees discussed in detail to the newspaper not only why they fired Paterno, but why they fired him over the phone — a move that even some trustees admit was their biggest regret.
Paterno was fired soon after former assistant head coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged with sex abuse crimes against children.
The article details the days following up to the decision to fire a man who spend 46 years as the team’s head coach. Trustees said they felt “blindsided” by President Graham Spanier for not informing them of what was really going on.
The trustees said, prior to Sandusky’s Nov. 5 arrest, Spanier never informed them about the testimony given by Paterno, Athletic Director Tim Curley, Gary Schultz and Spanier before a grand jury in spring 2011. The men testified before the grand jury about a 2002 report that Sandusky alleged molested a young boy in a shower on Penn State’s campus.
