GophersInIowa
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The timing of Joe Pa's death may have been the key to making him the sacrificial lamb. Make it look like he covered it up and accept your punishment to get people to look the other way. Its just way too convenient for me to believe the school ordered the investigation and the investigator places most of the blame on the dead guy. Pretty hard to defend yourself from the grave.
Then again, this could be just a conspiracy theory and a wild one at that. There are just too many connections and wierd coincidences throughout that piece that make you wonder how deep this could go. I can't think of one reason why Sandusky would have been allowed access to the facilities and the perks he got if Joe Pa really wanted him out of there other than the obvious
To add fuel to this fire, some have questioned the motivation of Joe Pa negotiating a $3M buy-out in early 2011, right after the grand jury. Some would suggest that Joe knew the fire was coming, but I am going to stand by my judgement that JoePa was a figure head in the football program and within in the Paterno household. I could see someone behind the scenes in the Paterno family negotiating a deal that would secure the financial security of the family... I think its also interesting that JoePa's cancer was diagnosed about a week after all this stuff hit the fan and that he died two months later. Coincidence?
Type of cancer is unusual in non-smokers...
http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-24/news/30659574_1_small-cell-lung-cancer-aggressive-cancer
I don't think "most" of the blame has been put on him. It's just that of all those involved, he is by far the most well known.