The percentage of homosexuals in the population has probably never changed much throughout history, neither has that of pedophiles and pederasts. We've had these problems with the boy scouts, the Catholic Church, and in lots of other places.

The specific problem here is football. No, there is nothing wrong with the game itself, its the football industry as it exists in our colleges that is to blame. Its a huge money-making machine that feeds off (supposedly) unpaid athletes, and supports and exploits a huge pyramid of coaches, TV contracts, administrators, boosters, alumnae, organizations, journalists, bureaucrats and other hangers-on and camp followers, not to mention the fans and the collateral industries, like concessionaires and others. There is a mountain of careers and reputations and fortunes based on this unholy alliance, all sanctified under the banners of "education" and "youth" and it has a massive inertia, one not likely to be overcome by one alleged minor crime. People just look the other way and hope it will go away. Too much is at stake and no one wants to rock the boat. Just like in the RC church.

A couple of good friends of mine in Pittsburgh were Penn State grads, and one of my old professors was there. I often drove to State College to visit him. So I've seen first hand the grip football has on that town and the university. College football is all about money, which means its all about corruption, not necessarily sexual, but usually financial and academic, or about gambling and lucrative media contracts, all based on the labor and work and talent of unpaid youngsters. Its essentailly a gladitorial industry.