Penn State just doesn’t get it.
The university announced Tuesday that it will honor late football coach Joe Paterno during a Sept. 17 home game against Temple.
Paterno was fired during the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal in November 2011, and he died at age 85 a few months later. Paterno spent 55 years as head coach of the football team.
Sandusky was an assistant football coach at Penn State from 1969 through 1999. Paterno, the head coach during that time, allegedly knew Sandusky was abusing boys in State College, Penn., and did nothing to stop it.
Sandusky was convicted on 45 counts of sex abuse in 2012.
A total of 111 wins from 1998 through 2012, 110 of which belonged to Paterno, were vacated in 2012 after the Freeh Report’s findings were revealed. Those wins were restored by the NCAA in 2015, and as a result, Paterno’s win total now stands at 405, not 298, which means he’s the all-time record holder again.
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