… before that person gets in any kind of trouble?
If that person is a football coach – Joe Paterno – or an athletic director – the University of Montana’s Jim O’Day – the answer is a lot. A lot of bad shit can go down before you have to answer for it; and even as you’re answering for it, your loyal fans will express outrage that some university president had the unmitigated gall to make you answer for it.
Everybody knows about Paterno; but now people in Missoula are outraged, baffled, wounded, shocked, stunned (some of the words that recur in news reports) that an athletic director who has been in charge of sports at Montana during two major, extensive scandals (one in 2009, and a current one) on his teams might be considered something less than an asset by his school.