State College, PA.-Joe Paterno's tenure as coach of the Penn State Football Club will be over soon, possibly within days or weeks, as a result of sex abuse scandal, which involved officials of the University, according to two people briefed on conversations among senior officials of the University.
The Board of Trustees has yet to determine the exact timing of Paterno's departure, but it is clear that the man who has more victories than any other coach in the top college football level and who made Penn State's prestigious national brand will not survive the coach another season. Discussion on how to manage his departure began, according to two people.
Paterno was held at the press conference on Tuesday, but the University canceled it less than an hour before it was scheduled to begin.
At the age of 84 years and 46 seasons as Penn State head coach behind him, Paterno extraordinary run of success — one that produced tens of millions of dollars to schools and two national championships, and adherence to established him as one of the most respected leaders in sport — will end with a stunning and humiliating final chapter.
Jerry Sandusky, former defensive coordinator in the Paterno, accused of sexually abusing eight boys through the 15-year period, and Paterno have been widely criticized for failing to bring in the police when he learned the approval of one attack a young boy in 2002 year.
In addition, the top two universities — Gary Schultz, Senior Vice President of finance and business and Tim Curley, Athletic Director, was charged with perjury and failure to notify the authorities they knew the allegations as required by State law.
From the moment of arrest Sandusky on Saturday, Penn State — especially its Chairman, Graham b. Spanier and Paterno — came under withering criticism for failure to act adequately after training at various locations over the years that Sandusky can abusing children. The newspaper called for their resignation; prosecutors have offered their inaction led to more children affected by the Sandusky; students and faculty at the University expressed a mixture of disgust and confusion and hope that a large part of what prosecutors charge was untrue.
Law enforcement officials on Monday said that Paterno met its legal obligation to alert their superiors at the University, when he learned from 2002, the charges against Sandusky. But they suggested that he may well not moral test for what to do when faced with such alarming allegations with the image of the child was not even in his youth. No one in the University notified the police, or the matter to determine the child's welfare. The identity of the child remain unknown, according to the General Prosecutor.
Paterno has not been charged in the matter, but his failure to inform authorities he knew about the incident of the year 2002, in which the alleged sexual attack Sandusky young boy at the Penn State Football complex, became a flash point, stirring anger among members of the Council and an outpouring of public criticism about his handling of the issue.
In recent days, Paterno has lost the support of many members of the Council, and their conversations show a decisive shift in the power structure in the University. For example, in 2004 year, Paterno brushed off the request of the Rector of the University that he step down.
Paterno came to Penn State in 1950, as a 23-year-old assistant coach, making $ 3600. United States per year. He planned to stay for two seasons, to pay off his student loans from Brown University, where he earned a degree in English literature.
In 1966, he became a coach, and he is widely credited helped initiate a football program and the rest of Penn State University from local businesses into a national brand. Along the way, Beaver Stadium grew to 108000 seats from 29000 and Penn State's endowment has grown from virtually nothing more than $ 1 billion.
What separate Paterno many of his colleagues coaching until this week was that he did so with a few questions about how he grew up. Penn State Alumni and the education of noble ideals, known as Paterno Grand experiment, have become as synonymous with the programme as a normal uniforms and dominant defense.
Paterno has led Penn State national titles in 1982 and 1986, and it complements the success on the field with a reputation for throwback sideline Professor whose tie, thick glass and black coaching Nike shoes became predictable in the North-East of the fall, as the changing leaves.
Paterno arrive on campus, goes far beyond the football program. He and his wife, Sue, donated 4 million dollars to the University. On the campus of everything from ice cream flavor at dairy factory in library now bears his name.
"Does not exist in the entire 120-130 years history of the University, which has a greater influence on the establishment of what Joe Paterno," Larry foster, a former trustee and President of the Alumni Association, told The New York Times in 2004 year. "It is simply taken in so many areas.
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