The notion of JoePa turning out good young men is not "silly", though the convresations regarding what football coaches do with young men and parents' responsibility for raising their children are mutually exclusive. More than simply a few young men leave high school from broken homes and are fortunate enough to be taken into collegiate sports programs all over the country that provide them with guidance and leadership they'd not find at home. You are UNDERestimating the impact of a football (or any) coach. Yet is cannot be understated that Paterno continued to lead a progran with some sort of knowledge of what Jerry Sandusky was up to. It doesn't carry IMO the exact same weight as what Sandusky did, but that doesn't ablsolve JoePa of his role, regardless of how big or small. JoePa had done a great deal of good in this world with Penn State football as his vehicle. Yet it was the same vehicle that he steered off the road at the moment he stopped doing enough to rid Penn State of its football program's involvment with a man who endangered countless children. What is unfortunate for Joe is that it will take the word of other men to explain exactly what he did or did not know, and that is JoePa's fault. And until the truth is known, his legacy shall suffer.