Sandusky "distraught" over Paterno retirement, developments at Penn State

I saw one article that says Sandusky has known about some of the more recent charges going back 3 yrs or almost 3 yrs. So they've been working on this for a while now.

The termination of contact with Victim 1 occurred in the Spring of '08. This would have been when the mother contacted Child Services and the process began.

The AG office stated that there were 61 home phone calls from Sandusky's home to the victim's home from Jan 08 to July 09. During that time there were also 57 call from his cell phone to the victim's home phone, four from the victim's home phone to his cell phone and one from the mother's cell to his cell. At no time during this time did the victim ever call Sandusky.

Question. Sandusky was THE #1 defensive coach in the nation in his peak. Someone brought up the suggestion that he word was put out at the time of his retirement such that no other college was interested in making him an offer? If we had more on this, we could include all the coaches in the NCAA on the list?

I'd laugh if what had happened to this boys wasn't so horrific.

Things are coming full circle. Last night, somebody posted me saying that Penn State had given Sandusky the "candy" he need to lure boys, and I know I'm the first one to use that analogy on here as one of the first posters on these threads.

Somebody else posted to me about there being a hole in the reports about what McQueary told Joe Paterno, which is a point I've beaten into the ground with my "read it first to see what's in it, and a second time to see what's obviously missing" suggestion.

So as for Sandusky . . . Sandusky was twice the NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year, including . . . . 1999. Yes, he won it for the 1998 season, after which he retired. Penn State is/was known as "Linebacker U" in part because of the great role its linebackers played in its defensive schemes and the great linebackers it produced.

He was the Penn State defensive coordinator from 1977 to 1999. Penn State was famous for its defense. One of the most famous NCAA National Championship games was the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, when a swaggering, cocky, high-scoring Miami team changed to urban battle fatigues on the place to show up for photos arriving as thugs, against wholesome Penn State. At the traditional banquet, Penn State was in coat and tie, and Miami wore battle fatigues.

Penn State won a 14-10 game on defense, including stopping a dramatic last drive. Sandusky is credited with winning the game by creating an ever changing defensives scheme that confused Miami QB Vinny Testaverde. Sandusky also told his defensive to his Miami QB wide receiver Michael Irvin early, often, and hard (and legally).

Sandusky was an assistant coach his whole career. There's no telling how many head coaching jobs he turned down . . . but he was waiting at Penn State to follow Joe Paterno (under whom he had played in '65 and '66). He was considered the heir apparent.

In 1999 (after the 1998 shower investigations by the University Police, and the 1998 molestation investigation by the DA that was dropped for insufficient evidence), he abruptly retired at 55, which is a prime age for coaches.

He never coached again. His name never surfaced as a candidate for a coaching role elsewhere.

I'm certain he was comfortable being connected at Penn State, although now something in the back of my mind wonders *why* nobody else approached him. Normally schools will make overtures even if you've said you're not interested in offers, although we may not have heard of those. Was he commonly known to be radioactive?

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