Penn State Scandal

This past week a horrific scandal took place at Penn State University involving a former Defensive Coordinator molesting young boys.  This took place about 10 years ago, and on Saturday the news about it just came out, as the Athletic Director and Vice President were arrested for perjury charges.  Due to what happened, Penn State fired there legendary coach Joe Paterno, who was a coach at the university for 61 years.  Paterno has the most victories of any Division I football coach with 409.  Paterno had first said that he was going to resign at the end of the season, which I thought was the right thing since he is in his last year of his contract and is about to be 85 years old.  What I did not think was right was the way that he was fired.  After all of his devotion to the university where he donated millions of dollars, you would have thought that the Board of Trustees would talk to him in person about the firing, but no they left him a note at his door step with a phone number on it that he had to call and the Board fired him over the phone.  Now after all of the devotion and service that Paterno has done to the university, you would think that they would have the dignity to tell him in person that he was fired.  Not telling him in person was one of the reasons why students started to riot on downtown State College, Pennsylvania.  A lot of the students were mad that they fired Paterno over the phone and that they didn't let their loved Coach finish out the season, especially coach the last home game which is this weekend and is Senior Night.  Students even supported Paterno at his home and are still doing that today.  Now the main question for Saturday's game will be how the football team reacts and plays without their coach being on the sidelines for the first time in 61 years, and how the fans react as well.  This is a terrible situation going on right now and it will probably still get worse, as I'm sure there is more information out there that we don't know about.