STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State’s trustees have said something most already know: They fired late coach Joe Paterno in November over his alleged failure to follow up on a sexual abuse allegation against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. That “constituted a failure of leadership,” the board of trustees said.
The report says the same thing of President Graham Spanier, who was ousted as president the same night Paterno was fired. Spanier remains a professor at the university.
A report issued today by the trustees says the board ultimately decided to fire Paterno after learning the details of his testimony before a grand jury when charges were filed against Sandusky.
The report also says the board decided to fire Paterno by phone because his home was surrounded by media and they deemed there was no “dignified, private and secure way” for trustees to meet with him in person.
Paterno died of lung cancer in January.
Neither Paterno nor Spanier were charged with a crime.
Sandusky’s trial on charges he sexually abused boys, many of them while on the Penn State campus, is scheduled for May, although that may change after a hearing today. He maintains his innocence.
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