He stayed away from "shoot him in the face" mob mentality.
I don't think anybody here is taking that stance. I don't think anybody thinks he should even be prosecuted or anything. The only consistant points I have seen are that Joe Pa most certainly deserved to be fired over this whole thing, and the students protesting on his behalf are morons. Most of the conversation was sparked off by you attempting to justify Joe Pa having a hand in covering this whole thing up because it happens every where, everyday, and by your stance that he told his supervisor, so that's where his responsibility ended, because he did "what he was supposed to do".
Joe Pa deserved to be fired. They didn't take this guy's keys to the locker room away for nothing. They didn't tell him to stop bringing young boys to the football facilities for nothing. They didn't force him to resign for nothing. The problem with telling a lie is, you have to keep telling more lies to keep the first lie going. That is exactly what happened here. They knew something was going on, and they decided they didn't want it to tarnish the program. They had to bury it, but at the same time, make sure it didn't happen again. When it came around to kick them in the ass again, well they couldn't let that get out, because everybody would know they covered it up the first time. And so on, and so on. And now we are where we are today.