into his garage. about an hour earlier, his wife came to address the crowd. we are not going anywhere. reporter: it s been that way since september 11th 66. penn state became what it is today because of joe paterno. reporter: this week is different. something is missing. paterno is not on the sideline he was fired bit board of trustees in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving his long time assistantjerry sandusky. i m sad. i feel like it is a funeral in a way. i m not going to wash away 40 years of good works because of one terrible laps in judgment. we are all human. the scandal divided the opinion of many in the penn state community, even bringing some to anger. at 6:30 friday, someone called in a bomb threat to beaver stadium. police and fbi agents searched twice with bomb-sniffing dogs but didn t find anything. then they sent an e-mail alert to students alerting them about the situation. all day, people have been stopping by. there is a high graduation r
about an hour earlier, his wife susan came out to address the crowd. we are not going anywhere. thank you. reporter: saturday at penn state is synonymous with college football. it s been that way since 1966. penn state is this way because of joe paterno. reporter: but this is different. something is missing. paterno was not on the sideline. he was fired by penn state in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving his long-time assistants jerry sandusky. i m sad. i m sad. it s like going to a funeral. i m not going to wash away 46 years of good work because of one lapse of judgment reporter: the scandal has divided the community. it even brought in a lot of anger. at 6:46, somebody phoned in a bomb alert. police brought bomb sniffing dogs. but they didn t find anything. there is a library on campus. he has the highest graduation rate among athletes. he need to be recognized and what they did to him was wrong. kathy drove from morgan, west virginia, to hand deli