Paterno Family Releases Statement on Freeh Report - Onward State
To this point, Joe Paterno is the only person who publicly acknowledged that with the benefit of hindsight he wished he had done more. This was an honest and courageous admission that a true leader must assume a measure of responsibility when something goes wrong on his watch.
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Why has no one else publicly acknowledged this? Are they all still in denial?
It's not that they're in denial. It's that they're in cover up mode. Louis Freeh was hired by the same BoT cabal that hired Spanier. They know they were complicit and they're specifically trying to pin their collective responsibility onto the dead guy (i.e JoPa).
Because that's the kind of man JoPa was...
They are half-way between stages 1&2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kübler-Ross_model