is going to stay that way through saturday when the lions host their final home football game of the year. all this as the university and the community gets used to the idea that for the first time in decades, joe paterno is not the head football coach. penn state head football coach tom bradley is the way it sounds now. it doesn t sound quite right, not even to him. he says it s with mixed emotions and heavy hearts that he is going to go through this. campus board of trustees fired joe paterno, as well as the university president, graham spanier. and immediately afterwards police said 4,000 to 5,000 students poured on to the streets causing chaos, turning over a television truck. the students said their 84-year-old coach, paterno, deserved to coach at least one more game. joe-pa should not take the fall for this. reporter: paterno called it one of the great sorrows of my life. thanks. pray a little bit for those victims. reporter: pennsylvania governor tom corbett said he is d
didn t do enough. they didn t call the police once they heard allegations that paterno s former assistant, jerry sandusky, was sexually assaulting children. in our view things had reached a point where a change was necessary. paterno said he would retire end of the season. but he accepted the board s decision. thanks. paterno called the circumstances surrounding his exit one of the great sorrows of my life. pennsylvania governor tom corbett said he is disappointed in the coach and school s president. when it comes to the safety of children there can be no margin for error, no hesitation to act. the governor also called the students responsible for the chaos on campus knuckleheads. he said he believes they had a right to express their opinions but said they do not have a right to violence. dan, sunny? scott, thank you. well, the mother of so-called victim number one in the sex abuse scandal is speaking out for the first time. in an exclusive interview with
coach joe paterno announced today that he will retire at the end of this football season. but the board of trustees at penn state is meeting tonight and there is growing pressure to dismiss him right away. it all stems from charges against paterno s former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. prosecutors say he sexually abused eight boys over a 15-year period. sources tell our fox news affiliate in philadelphia that as many as 17 people are considering coming forward to say sandusky abused them. critics say joe paterno failed to follow up on at least one reported case of abuse back in 2002. that a witness said involved sandusky, a 10-year-old boy and the locker room showers. sodomy they now call it. in a statement, paterno himself admitted his actions did fall short and he wrote: this is a tragedy. it s one of the great sorrows of my life. paterno went on to say with the benefit of hindsight, i wish i had done more. now coach paterno, the man who became the winningness coach in histor
stolen from them. joe paterno stopped from holding the weekly news conference. i know you guys have a lot of questions and i was hoping i d be able to answer them. but we ll try to do it as soon as we can. the football program here doesn t deserve [ inaudible ] i think he did what he is supposed to. the face of penn state. [ chanting ] the kids involved in some of the problems we talked about. [ inaudible ] god bless everybody. [ chanting and cheering ] bob: they released a statement earlier today he said, this is a tragedy. it s one of the great sorrows of my life. with the benefit of hindsight, i wish i had done more. that is the question. what more could have been done and should have been done? greg? greg: i read the grand jury report. it was i mean it is amazing. people knew about this.
saturday s nebraska game. that is part of the controversy. he said he s stepping down but not immediately, not until the end of the season. in a statement today he said paterno, who is the nearest thing to a secular saint in pennsylvania and hero to his players drew their praise today for his decision. i think as long as he s been here, he hasn t really ever made a wrong decision. he knows what he s doing. he s been doing it for so long. if he thinks it s best for the program, chances are it s going to be the best thing for the program. more and more as you ll see, people have doubts about his decision now not to immediately step down. here s former penn state legend matt millen today on espn. to be honest with you, and you can probably hear it, and i apologize to you, i get mad. it s it s pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen to this level, if, in fact, it has happened, then, you know, there s a part of me that, like i mentioned earlie