Jerry Sandusky coached at Penn State for 29 years before his earliest confirmed sexual assault of a minor. He ran The Second Mile for 21 years before his earliest confirmed assault.
Does anyone think that, in his 50s, Jerry Sandusky spontaneously began molesting little boys for the first time? That this was some kind of mid-life crisis?
Sandusky retired from coaching in 1999, after the Nittany Lions trounced Texas A&M in the Alamo Bowl. This was a decorated assistant coach in his mid-fifties. No other college approached him to recruit him? Even a little one elsewhere in football-crazy, Penn-State-football-crazy Pennsylvania? Pitt or Temple didn't want to have their football program run by this guy? California University of Pennsylvania didn't even ask? Really?
Boy, that's weird.
I mean, either they approached him, and he turned them down (which would be kind of strange), or they knew not to ask. Or approached PSU and asked permission to talk to him, and were discouraged from doing so.
You know, now that I think about it... this guy won two national championships as a defensive coordinator, in '82 and '86. How come he never got poached? I know he was then seen as Paterno's heir apparent, but it's not like heirs apparent are never poached or supplanted (see Dana Holgorson).
It's weird. I feel like there's more to this story.
3 comments:
He was approached for the job at University of Virginia that went to Al Groh.
Hey - thanks for the information - I had not known that. I wonder why he didn't take it. Or didn't get it.
Supposedly he didn't get the UVA job because they weren't convinced he was committed to football (it was right after he retired from Penn State) - they thought he wouldn't want to leave Second Mile. So they never got past the interview stage.
However, he was actually offered the head coach job by Maryland around '91, and there's some articles that say he was offered a couple of other positions as well back in the day - apparently he turned them down in hopes of succeeding Paterno.
Post a Comment