JOE PATERNO FIRED AS HEAD FOOTBALL COACH @ PENN STATE FOR 46 YEARS.....A PREMATURE ACTION ?...........

In American College Football history, Coach Joe Paterno, in his forty sixth consecutive year as the iconic, and most winning college football coach ever, as Head Coach of Pennsylvania State University, College Station; popularly called Penn State - was fired tonight, along with the University President, as falout from an unfolding child sexual abuse scandal on campus reportedly carried out by former Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky.  Coach Paterno received a report of an act of abuse by Sandusky, from a young coaching intern, and went to his superiors to report the incident.  However, Paterno left it at that.  He did not go to law enforcement authorities.  For that reason, in light of news of the scandal, he is being criticized for not doing enough; and at age 84, after 61 years of consumately dedicated service to Penn State University, is forced out, being fired effective immediately.  I strongly feel this action is premature and unfairin time, it seems , given Coach Paterno announced within the past day he would retire at the end of this football season; an ending just two months away.  At Penn State at this moment in history it seems a rush to judgment and instant, underdeveloped, solutions to the crisis caused by the scandal, not our hallmark American Justice, are the inflicted upon an upstanding, man, coach, teacher, mentor, family man, and faithful Catholic-Christian, in the name of expediency.  God Bless You Coach Paterno !!!!!!!!!!!...........Fr.  Troy