Cowherd is from a small town on the Washington coast and went to Eastern Washington University (my school many years ago) and has no personal ties to either Syracuse or Penn State. The same cannot be said of many others at ESPN, many of whom are probably worried about ESPN’s willingness to let this story go unreported for a decade.
I fully understand the intimate relationship between ESPN and colleges like Syracuse and Penn State. There isn’t a day goes by you flip over to ESPN and they’re showing some basketball or football game one one of these schools is playing that game. ESPN first and foremost is going to protect this relationship. That’s understandable. The kids playing out on the court or the field aren’t the guilty party. But ESPN needs to stop trying to protect the sexual predators at these campuses.