A year ago, Audrey Snyder went looking for a statue of Joe Paterno.
What ensued was a long, fruitless search in which no one, not even Paterno’s family, seemed to know where the statue resided, eight years after it was taken down in July 2012 following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
“It is still a lightning rod topic around here,” said Snyder, who covers Penn State for the Athletic. “Some people say they never should have taken it down. Others say they did the right thing by taking it down. Some people say they should put it back up.