So there’s lots of porn on the PSU network?

There was a lot of porn at someone’s house on campus and it was the Man from Spain.

I think there’s a lot of truth in what you say. But these guys in charge of large organizations are also smart enough to analyze the risk of a given situation. If they truly understood how bad this was, they had to understand how bad it could get for PSU if the story ever blew up. And I can’t imagine having any understanding of that and STILL electing to cover it up. The risk that the coverup would be exposed and the extent of the wrath that would come with it far outweigh whatever (relative) short-term hit to the school’s reputation by exposing Sandusky way back then. So much so that even in hindsight and not knowing everything we know now, that should have been clear.

I don’t find this at all unbelieveable, given what went on in the Vatican regarding the same issue.

Was thinking the same thing, it’s not like a large institution has never overlooked criminal behavior to protect itself, even if it’s incredibly shortsighted.

/Kent Brockman’d

That implies a sense of thinking that isn’t in line with major universities or corporations. You’re right that the school wouldn’t have been “substantially harmed” but even the idea of “tangential harm” is anathema to people in charge of big institutions. The idea that their name would have been stained or that Joe Pa would have had to take the stand against his former employee/friend was likely too much for them to consider.

And again, just like any big corporation or institution, the guy at the top has various insulating layers of middle management that can take the fall for mistakes. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Spanier never got more than the barest of mentions from Schultz and Curley about what was happening. That way you create plausible deniability.

See also: Catholic Church Scandal, WMD in Iraq Investigations.

PSU once employed me in an IT capacity, that’s all you need to know about their infrastructural competence.

So there’s lots of porn on the PSU network?

I was gonna make a “golden showers” joke here, but nah.

So there’s lots of porn on the PSU network?

I have trouble believing he let a known child molester run free on the absurd notion that he would never get caught.

I don’t find this at all unbelieveable, given what went on in the Vatican regarding the same issue.

Graham Spanier Speaks About Sandusky Scandal, But Account Still Leaves Major Holes

Major holes = the Freeh Report.

Let’s just say that Schultz and Curley are found not guilty. Then what?

Exhume JoePa and have him sit trail.

I think Spanier is lying about some part of this, but that a lot of what he says is probably true. This is what happens when you rush out an incomplete report without anyone involved telling their side. Spanier is leaving something out, but I have trouble believing he let a known child molester run free on the absurd notion that he would never get caught. The Freeh Report would have you believe that smart people Spanier and Paterno suddenly became morons in the blink of an eye.

What I’ve never understood about any of this is why anyone at Penn State would feel the need to cover this up. Or put differently, if they were protecting the university or even worse, the football program, how did they not realize that neither would be substantially harmed if they did the right thing and turned Sandusky in?

That’s just never sat right with me, and I’ve got this funny feeling that Spanier was at least partially right about the Freeh Report having a pre-ordained conclusion with the ultimate goal of moving on as quickly as possible.

Let’s just say that Schultz and Curley are found not guilty. Then what?

/that’s how it goes, right Rusty?

In 1998… possibly.

But I’m guessing the lead IT guy from that era is also dead. Blame all the dead guys.

I do think on some level it’s laughable that sportswriters are somehow expecting the president of one of the country’s largest universities to remember a couple of emails he was CCed on in the 1990s, as if he has instant total recall of this stuff. My schedule is probably 25% as busy as a guy like Spanier’s and I frequently unearth documents and emails that I myself wrote that I have no recollection of whatsoever.

To me the discrepancy in this interview is when Spanier says he had no idea that his grand jury testimony dealt with sodomy in his April 13 testimony, despite the March 31 newspaper story that said Sandusky was “the subject of a grand jury investigation into allegations that he indecently assaulted a teenage boy.” Seems unlikely that even if Spanier didn’t know on April 13 the extent or hideous seriousness of the investigation he should have been tipped off by the March 31 story that it was more than “horseplay.”

He might have had so many emails that he didn’t read them all, but he probably had the opportunity to do so.

OH. Nevermind then. Go on your way. These are not the rapist droid emails you are looking for.