They all kept quiet. Even when her son broke down at school the people at the school urged her to keep it quiet. They should be in jail too! What is going on in this town? Never mind. We now know that it was hell for little boys ...
“They told me to go home and think about what I wanted to do, and I was not happy,” she said. “They said I needed to think about how that would impact my son if I said something like that. I went home and got [my son] and we came to [Children and Youth Services] immediately.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/mothers_of_two_of_jerry_sandus.html
Every Penn State home game brings in at least 100,000 people. There are 7 regular season home games this year. According to one article (here: http://blog.pennlive.com/life/2010/08/how_much_does_it_cost_to_go_to.html), it costs around $160 per attendee. That’s 7 x 160 x 100,000, for just game day revenue in the local area alone. Total $112 million, a year.
When can easily double that in ancillary local area revenues associated with the team. The Penn State football team is worth, by that estimate, a quarter billion dollars a year.
If not for that State College is small college town in a very rural area.