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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1125304, member: 40"]
I'm not so sure--because my take [and I own that this is my opinion only] is that the decade-plus long cover up was equally as bad as the crime, given the nature of the crimes themselves.  And what led to that cover up was a cultural, isntitutional, systemic breakdown that occured only as a function of a desire to look the other way to preserve the best interests of a sports program and the icon at the helm, to the detriment of children who were being victimized. 
 
How on earth--if they knew or even had an inkling about what Sandusky was alleged to have done--would they let this guy continue to use campus facilities to run his camps after he'd been dismissed under unusual circumstances?  And the cover up might not be restricted to the University level--it may also extend to local law enforcement [amongst other] external groups.
 
So while I agree with some of your earlier perspective--the people who committed the crimes might be gone, dead, imprisoned, etc.--I don't think that the penalties were adequate to impact the culture that facilitated and enabled this nonsense for more than a decade after it was brought to Paterno's and school officials' attention. 
 
The crimes themselves were contemptible.  The cover up [and I do not mean this in any way to diminish what happened to those children] might be ever worse, given that so many children over so many years were abused, while the coaching staff, university officials, and law enforcement turned a blind eye in order to protect football interests.
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