Exactly one week elapsed from the moment 200 or so former Penn State football players beseeched the university’s administration to liberate the statue of Joe Paterno because “enough is enough” and “now is the appropriate time,” until the potentially definitive smoking gun on the late coach’s legacy emerged from unsealed documents.
So maybe this isn’t the appropriate time.
Maybe wait another week, perhaps another decade.
Some things happen fast in Penn State’s ever-deepening nightmare, just not enough things.
Barely seven months elapsed between Jerry Sandusky’s arrest on child sexual assault charges and a court sending him to prison forever.