Patch Reacts to Penn State Scandal

Joe Paterno is no longer the head coach of the Penn State football team, after former assistant Jerry Sandusky was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse involving boys.

Patch sites in Pennsylvania have been covering reaction to the scandal.

Pottstown Patch said opinion of to prevent the alleged abuse from occuring, but most found the whole episode "sad."

"I feel sorry for (Paterno)," Pottstown resident Charles Kropp said. "It's sad ... He always put his players first ... It's sad for a man of his coaching career to go out this way."

Andrew Kefer said Paterno had an obligation to report the alleged abuse to police when he was alerted to it.

"Coach Paterno is an icon," Kefer said. "He can basically do whatever he wants ... There was a moral obligation that was missed by him."

asking whether Paterno "did the right thing" by announcing he would resign at the end of the football season. Readers were split about 50/50, before school officials announced that Paterno was fired effectively immediately.

After the firing announcement, residents in the Lehigh Valley An article on the firing generated 44 comments. 

asking whether the school's Board of Trustees made the right call. About 80 percent of more than 260 respondents said yes.