Spencer: Lessons to be learned in PSU scandal
http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/...5008b58a51120316299101.txt?viewmode=fullstory
.............. But 20 years ago, he was a Penn State graduate assistant football coach, just like Mike McQueary. And he too saw some things things involving Jerry Sandusky and young boys..............
He always had a kid around.
It was presented to the rest of the camp as a mentoring relationship, but it seemed closer than that. At video sessions, in the players lounge, Sandusky would sit with the kid on a big blue sofa hip to hip, like youd be sitting next to your wife watching your favorite TV show.............
I was shocked, he said, but Sandusky got up laughing, and introduced the kid. The second time it happened, he said, Sandusky gave him a pissed off look like he was interrupting something and he was the one who shouldnt have been there.
Then there were showers with the kids. Everybody saw it and knew about it. But, John said, a lot of the coaches brought their own sons into the locker rooms and showered with them. He just figured it was part of the family culture of the place...........
As for the idea that Joe Paterno and others never suspected a thing, John cant buy it.
When it came to that program, Joe knew everything. Nothing got by Joe..................
He had eyes and ears everywhere, said the GA. And so, it is his belief, there is no way he wouldnt have had at least an inkling about Sandusky before the 1998 investigation and certainly after 2001 when McQueary went to him that Saturday morning.
Paternos reporting of the matter to athletic director Tim Curley was not Paterno sending it up the ladder, but down the ladder, said John...........
And so, he concludes, it was Paterno who decided how this would be handled. And what he decided was not to go to any outside investigative agency...........
He hasnt read the Freeh Report or much else about the case. But he believes that at some point, years (maybe decades) ago, Joe Paterno figured out what Jerry Sandusky was and he made the conscious decision to look the other way because he knew that Sanduskys disgrace would be his own...........