The NCAA board of governors approved the settlement, said association spokesman Bob Williams. Penn State trustees approved the deal to scrap the consent decree, and enter into new agreement. The new pact restores 112 wins to Penn State football and Paterno’s status as winningest coach in major college football history, keeps $60 million in penalties intact, with money to be spent in Pennsylvania.
It had eliminated all wins from 1998 — when police investigated a mother’s complaint that Sandusky had showered with her son — through 2011, Paterno’s final season as head coach after six decades with the team and the year Sandusky was charged.
“There was a movement away from what I thought was a genuine mea culpa on the part of Penn State, having accepted the NCAA sanctions, and one toward, ‘Why did we cave so easily?’ That was disappointing,” he said.