Yes, because only one man did anything wrong here.
I know they gotta say what they gotta say to pander to their fans (if any of them even actually had a hand in writing it), but it's a sad sign that nothing has changed about the culture.
The trustees haven't changed, the alumni haven't changed, the collective head-in-sand culture hasn't changed. Penn State keeps painting itself as a poor victim struggling against unfair adversity, and they seem to be taking all the wrong lessons away from their punishment. Has anyone in the cult actually learned anything from this? The program might be back to square one within a decade; would any of them dare to blow the whistle on a child raping coach at that point? I'm skeptical.
What is there to learn? That a group of all of four people didn't report a child predator 14 years ago - but were all in high positions at PSU so the whole school took the fall when most players on the current team were just starting Kindergarden?
Just because a certain segment of wacko fanatics protected their 'hero sports figure' from what came out about him, doesn't mean there's a specific 'culture' there. Look at some of the bigger scandals over the years regarding cults of personalities. People were defending Kobe as soon as rape allegations came out, he was acquited, but how many Lakers fans defended him before they knew a damn thing, just because he was a star?
How many Saints fans are crying foul over the bounty shit in the NFL? How many Brewers fans were making excuses for their MVP last year when he tested positive for roids and got off on a technicality? Or Cam Newton's family getting paid and no one outside Auburn thinking he should have been eligible? Smaller issues, sure, but the excuses are always the same.
This culture you keep speaking of - its SPORTS. The nutjobs and the wackos are going to defend till their death in any fanbase. It happens time and time again. They'll excuse something as far as their cognitive dissonance can go.
And its no surprise that the team and players has taken the us vs. the world mentality because they're the ones being punished for something they didn't do. The fallout of something bad usually falls on the innocent many, more the targeted few who caused the problems. German women and children were raped by Russian soldiers after Berlin fell in response to German atrocities in Russian villiage while Hitler took the pussy way out.
If there was a lesson to be learned here, its only history repeats itself, and the sins of a select few are usually paid for by a collective majority.