And he will do everything he can to get them.

His ex-coach, Joe Paterno, was fired last Wednesday stemming from the charges made against former defensive football coach Jerry Sandusky.

The first thing Harris did was talk to interim president, Rodney Erickson, on Tuesday.

“I talked to Rod [Tuesday] and asked him to re-hire Joe Paterno and he said, ‘No, we cannot do that,’ ” Harris said. “I told him that a bad decision has been made, but we should be above this, where we can reverse bad decisions. It’s not too late. He didn’t want to hear it.”

After he spoke to Erickson, Harris said he called the Board of Trustees chairman, Steve Garban, twice. As of Wednesday evening, he did not get a call back.

Harris said he wanted an answer to “What was the justification of firing Joe Paterno?”

From what he understands, no one has gotten answers and it looks like everyone’s accepting that.

“Why are we letting them get away from this?” Harris said. “They are using this sex scandal to keep everybody away from that direction and to keep everybody quiet.”

Harris doesn’t want people to sit back and let a “good person be torn down.”

“We as Penn Staters are allowing that to happen. We have let everybody around the country tear Joe Paterno down,” Harris said. “He would protect Penn State to the core…and he would definitely protect his ball players. And yet we’re doing that to him.”

Harris said while Paterno performed his legal obligations, state police Commissioner Frank Noonan declared that the former coach had a moral obligation to act. The former Penn State running back said that statement created a “storm of people grabbing onto that moral issue.”

He explained that people know a lot more information than they did ten years ago. Harris said Paterno is not going to point fingers and put the blame on people.

“That’s not Joe, that’s not his personality, that’s not him,” said Harris.

Harris said he was watching the news when his former coach was fired. Once they announced it, he said he was very upset in their decision.

“I was just in shock. It was unwarranted, unjust, and they just really showed no feeling,” Harris said. “They sent him a letter, rather than going to his house or calling him in to have a discussion with him. That was low.”