The report by former FBI director Louis Freeh on the Penn State scandal that rocked all of college athletics confirmed, as many feared, that Paterno, Penn State’s Hall of Fame football coach, who had an NCAA Division I record 409 victories, was guilty of concealing the accusations of rape and child molestation made against his former assistant, Jerry Sandusky. Smith has lived an exemplary life, but he was right: When you put someone’s name on a building, you immortalize him. He was talked into it by university officials, who said that it was what most alumni wanted. When the University of North Carolina wanted to name its new arena after basketball Coach Dean Smith in 1986, Smith objected, saying that arenas shouldn’t be named for coaches. John Feinstein is a contributor to The Post and the author of 29 books, most recently “Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics.”
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