Woody Hayes did a great deal of good in his career too, but I bet most of people here only know or only think about him for the punch. That's the way it's going to be for Paterno too. Sorry. Keep fighting the good fight for what you believe in though.
While I understand why you chose it as an example, I'm not sure that the Hayes/Paterno comparison is a fair one. A computer user can Google "Woody Hayes punch" and plainly see that Coach Hayes did, in fact, punch an opposing player. Whether or not Coach Hayes was an otherwise good man is certainly a matter for debate, but the incident itself is a documented fact.
The same cannot be done for Joe Paterno. There is no video of him conspiring to cover up the Sandusky incident (although this parody one is pretty funny), nor is there a shred of evidence that Joe actually believed Sandusky to be a pedophile yet chose to do nothing about it. People have chosen to have an opinion about Joe Paterno that it based -- all or in-part -- on speculative information (& in some cases on false information and fantasy).
This is just one component of the overall frustration that's part of the shared experience here (IMO).
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