Jay Paterno, the son of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, wrote an open letter on his website imploring Ohio State to not give into "mob mentality" and rush to judge head coach Urban Meyer.
"We should wait for facts," Paterno wrote. "We should drive a stake in the ground to defend due process. We should shed our implicit bias against people we dislike being accused. We should have courage to stand against the virtual mob gathering for a virtual lynching before we know the facts.
"And for those who need a refresher course: Published allegations do NOT automatically equal facts.