Mind-boggling: NCAA

$60 Million in fines?


Vacating all victories from 1998-2011?


Loss of some scholarships for the next four years?


No post-season games allowed for four years?  

Mind boggling.  

So hundreds of thousands of students are penalized, and fans, and supporters of Penn State are to be punished?


All because of some as yet unproven allegations against Joe Paterno, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, and Graham Spanier?  

No ma'am, no sir!  I am NOT forgetting the victims.  But unlike most everyone else, I am seeing one, at least, and possibly 3 more victims here of a rush to judgment, and millions of Penn State students, alumni, and fans who are also made victims by the NCAA.  None of the allegations have been proven.   There are charges against two of the four, Curley and Schultz, that they committed perjury in their Grand Jury testimony. 


I have never liked the fact that the NCAA hands out such penalties to schools because of recruiting violations, or cheating, or providing freebies to student athletes...crimes committed by the coaching staffs.  And then the coaches move on to another school, leaving the student athletes, and their fan base, and boosters, and the school dangling in the wind for several years.  

What kind of message does that send to a university, its students, and its alumni?  And what does it say to those coaches?  Only that if you get caught you will wind up at a smaller school with a lower salary, or on national TV broadcasting or analyzing games. 


Why, when meting out punishment, is it necessary to create thousands of new victims?  And why must it be done before all the facts are proven?  There are far too many questions than answers in the Freeh report.  At the very least the NCAA should have waited until Curley and Schultz have their day in court, IF they indeed have one coming.  We still think there is something lacking in the perjury charges, and that is specificity.  


Talk about a rush to judgment!


Mind boggling. 


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…and another thing…

It seems we are not alone in our assessment of Louis Freeh’s report on the Sandusky affair and its fallout for Penn State.  In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Joseph N. DiStefano, a journalist for the Inquirer, writes an article noting the fact that there are some folks who are not sold on Freeh’s report. 

In another article last November, DiStefano wrote that that in spite of disclaimers about any prior connection with Penn State, it seems Freeh indeed made an awful lot of money working for a bank [MBNA] that paid Penn State’s Alumni Association $30 million between 1998 and 2006 for their mailing lists and some help with marketing their credit cards to the alumni.  Additional moneys were paid annually for exclusivity rights and to keep Joe Paterno in the MBNA fold as well.  In 2006 Freeh left MBNA just as it was acquired by Bank of America, and Freeh cashed out his stock to the tune of $20 million. 

Freeh’s  position with MBNA was as General Counsel and as such had little to do with the marketing of Credit Cards, but he certainly would have reviewed contracts, and amended or approved them as necessary. 

DiStefano also provides a link to a very good and longtime columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times, Gil Spencer.  Spencer wrote, in an article yesterday titled “FreehReport is full of assumptions”, essentially along the same lines as our previous post.  There are assumptions and assertions in Freeh’s report that are simply not supported by the evidence he presents.  Spencer finds McQueary much more culpable than anyone else for not reporting the ”crime” he witnessed, and for not reporting it to Paterno, and later to Schultz and Curley as a rape, or sexual molestation.  Indeed, McQueary’s father, a medical professional, would have known the law required such a crime to be reported and he did nothing.  He obviously did not counsel his son to go to the police.  One wonders just what young McQueary actually told his dad.  Add that to the fact that Paterno, Curley and Schultz all testified that what McQueary reported was something far less serious than what he was saying to the Grand Jury and to the Sandusky trial jury. 


How could Freeh not see this commonality in what McQueary said then, and the contextual actions and eventual memories of the men to whom he reported it?

The more this gets looked at, the more McQueary’s actions and inactions come under scrutiny and they are not passing that scrutiny.  Yet Freeh uses McQueary extensively to provide the underpinnings of his condemnation of Curley, Schultz, Spanier and Paterno. 

Spencer writes, “The fact is, before this scandal broke, I couldn’t give two serious craps about Penn State or Joe Paterno.  I didn’t follow or care about his football program and I still don’t.  But lynch mobs offend me and so do people who leap to conclusions for the purpose of engaging in character assassination.”

Indeed there has been a rush to judgment, started first by the Trustees last fall, and picked up almost immediately by sportswriters and newscasters around the country.  It seems to be the prevailing sport among them, to see someone who is idolized for all the good he has done in his life and because he is better than they are, they must tear him down, find fault, regardless of its validity, and believe the worst about someone the bulk of the country thought was a good man who had done good things for a lot of people, over a long lifetime.  That is the kind of person they like to go after…with that “lynch mob” mentality.

The Paterno family reported today that it would conduct its own investigation and asked the Freeh investigators to preserve their notes and evidence and make it available. 

Others, like DiStefano and Spenser, are starting to see through the Freeh report.  That is a good thing. 

Please read Spencer’scolumn.  It is quite good.  It is an exemplar of the good writing and good sense that marks Gil Spencer’s reputation. 

He should watch out.  That marks him as a target for the “lynch mob.”

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Freeh Report: So much Swiss Cheese!

Poor Louis Freeh.  He was hired by the Trustees of Pennsylvania State University to conduct an investigation into the events involving Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children on campus and the administrators who essentially were responsible for not reporting it to the police or the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare.  Freeh was tasked with finding out who did what and why and when they did or did not act. 

This was a private investigation conducted by the former director of the FBI.  Hired by the Trustees in the wake of a total insurrection after they fired Joe Paterno late last year, without apparent just cause.  Without apparent just cause.  All they said at the time was, “He should have done more.” 

Sandusky is gone, convicted of enough charges of sexual abuse against minors to lock him away for two lifetimes. 

Spanier is tainted fish, suspended, never to return as President of the University.  He will never again work as such.  He may not ever work again after what he engaged in with Curley and Schultz. 

Curley and Schultz are awaiting trial on perjury charges that they lied to the Grand Jury.  It is likely that the perjury charges will be dropped against Curley and Schultz.  Memory of events and the order of events, vagueness in notes and emails, and alternate interpretations of notes and emails will make the case extraordinarily difficult to rosecute, and rightfully so. 

So, why Joe Paterno?  Why go after the legendary coach?  “Because he should have done more?” 

Who should have done more?

How about McQueary and his father?  Should they have reported the incident McQueary says he witnessed?  Of course they should have!  Are they being penalized?  Well, McQueary is.  He is suspended.  And rightfully so.  We will return to McQueary shortly. 

How about Curley and Schultz and Spanier?  Maybe.

How about the local attorney called and asked for advice, and paid for that advice?  Is he not an officer of the court and bound to report crimes?  The criminal was not a client so there was no privilege attached. 

And maybe therein lies the crux of the matter. 

From the beginning, there has been great confusion as to exactly what McQueary saw and when he saw it [2001 or 2002], and most importantly, how he reported it to his father [never explored], to Paterno [several different variations exist], to Curley and Schultz [those same variations exist as they do with McQueary’s report to Paterno], and to the Grand Jury [very different than what Paterno, Schultz, and Curley remember, or recorded in notes and emails.] 

Let us make something very clear here:  Joe Paterno did not use email.  Joe Paterno probably did not use computers, unless someone set up for him what they wanted him to see, like films of a potential recruit on a prep recruit ratings site.  More than likely, Joe had one of those large key, large print cell phones…if he had a cell phone at all. 

Why does McQueary suddenly remember clearly what he said to each man, Paterno, Curley and Schultz ten years ago, and their emails and notes [Schultz’s and Curley’s] present a much different and far more vague account that McQueary presented then? 

Here is an email from Curley to Spanier and Schultz a day after discussing the situation with Joe Paterno.  In Freeh’s mind, as in the minds of the mass media, it is the smoking gun that puts Paterno, et al into the cover-up conspiracy. 

“On Tuesday, February 27, 2001, Curley emailed Schultz and Spanier:

‘I had scheduled a meeting with you this afternoon about the subject we discussed on Sunday.  After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday-- I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps.  I am having trouble with going to everyone, but the person involved.  I think I would be more comfortable meeting with the person and tell him about the information we received.  I would plan to tell him we are aware of the first situation.  I would indicate we feel there is a problem and we want to assist the individual to get professional help.  Also, we feel a responsibility at some point soon to inform his organization and [sic] maybe the other one about the situation.  If he is cooperative we would work with him to handle informing the organization.  If not, we do not have a choice and will inform the two groups.  Additionally, I will let him know that his guests are not permitted to use our facilities.  I need some help on this one.  What do you think about this approach?’”

Freeh, p.74

This is a curiosity in and of itself.  It is probably the most crucial part of the case, the single most important piece of evidence that cries out ‘cover-up!’  Indeed, it is the piece of evidence that shows the alleged ‘cover-up’ first being proposed.

Or does it?  “After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday-- I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps.”  He does not say ‘After talking it over with Joe yesterday and giving it more thought—I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps.’  This is important.  This is the sentence that pull’s Joe Paterno into the alleged cover-up, at least in Freeh’s mind [and of course, that of the press.]

There is no record of the conversation between Curley and Paterno.  With Paterno dead, we will eventually get [maybe] an accurate description of what that conversation went like.  Nevertheless, Curley was already having doubts about reporting the incident to the Police and the Department of Welfare BEFORE he went to see Joe Paterno.

So Freeh actually makes a quantum leap of faith to connect Joe Paterno to the cover-up. 

It stretches credulity to think that Joe would counsel or condone a cover-up if he thought there was enough evidence to go on. 

Joe is revered as someone who spent his life helping others become a success.  There is no arguing that fact. 

So, then, perhaps Curley and Schultz are telling the truth after all [and maybe Joe Paterno was, too!], and perhaps that most credible of all witnesses, Mike McQueary, on whose testimony the whole investigation was instigated, and who was the only third party witness to a crime committed by Jerry Sandusky to come forward, maybe did not report it to Paterno and then to Schultz and Curley the way he said he did.  Joe did not remember the word “sexual” when recalling McQueary’s report to him.  Neither did Schultz or Curley. 

Harken back a bit farther, to the 1998 incident.  A worried mother reported Sandusky’s shower antics to the police, who investigated.  Joe was aware of the investigation.  Joe followed up on the investigation.  When no charges were filed, what was Joe Paterno to think?  Does anyone in their right minds think that Sandusky wasn’t doing this for many years?  Does anyone in their right minds think that if it had come to light to any of Joe’s staff or to Joe himself during those decades of Sandusky coaching under Joe, that Joe would not have taken steps to handle it properly?  Nothing had occurred prior to the 1998 report that would have aroused suspicions.  When cleared of the report in 1998, Joe likely wrote it off as someone’s mistaken interpretation, or a kid’s false report. 

So, McQueary, in his distress [he says he was in tears when he told Joe what he saw], maybe used the term ‘horsing around’.  How else would that term get into the testimony of the three: Curley, Schultz, and Paterno? 

Maybe, just maybe, Schultz, Curley, Paterno, and Spanier didn’t have enough to go on.  Maybe McQueary’s report lacked the critical element of actually seeing a sexual assault.  Even in his Grand Jury testimony he does not quite go that far.  He is still vague, calling it something of a “sexual nature.” 

Lacking that critical element these four men had nothing, really, to report to the authorities.  Had they done so, certainly McQueary would have been a questionable witness up front due to the fact that he DID NOT make the report himself. 

In their quandary, Spanier and Curley and Schultz turned to a local law firm with a long standing connection to Penn State, and for an hourly rate fee, were given legal advice by an attorney from there.  What do you think they were asking?  Obviously, they were asking “What are we obligated under the law to do?”  Additionally, they were obviously also asking, “What is the University’s risk of liability in this situation?”  Just as obviously, the answers were “nothing” and “no risk.” 

Any other answer would have required not only the University to take action by reporting the incident, it would also have required the attorney to report it! 

They would also have asked what the risk was if they reported Sandusky and he later decided after being cleared once again, to sue the University.

Why didn’t Spanier make use of the University’s legal counsel?  Obviously, they did not think the matter rose to the level that would require that, since it would require her to report the incident to the Trustees. 

Nevertheless, Spanier, Schultz, and Curley WERE going to report the incident to the Department of Welfare, so that body could investigate it, and not to the police since there was no evidence of a crime. 

Then Curley had second thoughts, and an inspired idea.  He would confront Sandusky, tell him he could not bring kids onto the campus again, have him present when they went to the CEO of The Second Mile [Jerry Sandusky’s foundation for helping troubled kids – a happy hunting ground for Sandusky], and lay it all out that Jerry has a problem. 

This is what they agreed to do.  This is what they did.  This is what they felt was the responsible thing to do. 

Once the Second Mile checked with their attorney they washed their hands of the incident.  They conducted no investigation of their own.  Having heard a report from Tim Curley that Sandusky has a problem getting too intimate with kids, bathing with them, wrestling with them and so on, they conducted no investigation of their own.  They never connected the dots.  And that was because there were no obvious dots to connect.  Not at the Second Mile, nor at Penn State.   

Freeh repeatedly charges all the Penn state people with failure to attempt to identify the victims.  But if they did not believe there were any victims, why would they then try to identify them? 

So maybe Curley, Schultz, Spanier, and Paterno were all telling the truth.  Maybe, just maybe, it is McQueary who doesn’t quite remember how he characterized his reports.

Finally now that we see that the Freeh report is full of holes, we can get to motivations. 

Why did the Board of Trustees feel the need to have this investigation carried out?  Would not the trial of Sandusky and the trial of Curley and Schultz suffice in clarifying exactly what happened, not just in the McQueary incident, but in subsequent incidents?

Of course it would…if Curley and Schultz are convicted of perjury.  Even if they were tried and acquitted, the sequence of events and the evidence would all be laid out and made public. 

But that does not answer the questions about Joe Paterno’s role in all this.  And that is why Freeh was hired to conduct his investigation.  There are many trustees who want to see Joe Paterno’s name cleared.  And there are many trustees who want to justify their precipitous action in firing Joe.  They are not the same trustees.

And Louis Freeh, of course, gave his employer exactly what they were looking for.  On the surface it condemns Joe Paterno not only as part of the cover-up but also as the likely source of the idea, and he does so by inference only, not by any direct evidence.  Underneath, if you go through his report carefully, you find the holes, which open up when the right questions are asked, or when what Freeh says simply does not add up, and Joe comes out clean. 

We found the holes.  

Nevertheless, Joe Paterno, and Penn State, are tarnished forever, and unfairly so.  

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Canceled Alert! Gettysburg not under new Casino threat!

...at the moment.

[Note: An early version of this post contained erroneous information which has now been removed.]

The Pennsylvania Gambling Commission will announce today that it will be taking applications for the unused dedicated casino license from the City of Philadelphia during the next three months.  This is according to Harrisburg Online today.

We had anticipated that this license would be auctioned off statewide, posing a potential threat to the Gettysburg Battlefield once again.  For now that is not the case.  

Nevertheless, it remains a threat, as posted in our previous entry [Casino Redux?].  

Once again we wish to rouse our readership to begin pressing their State Senators and Representatives to quickly pass House Bill 2082, which would protect not only Gettysburg Battlefield, but also the Flight 93 Crash Site Memorial north of Somerset, Pennsylvania.  The bill would provide a ten mile buffer around each of these sites.  Push your legislators to get that bill out of committee immediately and get it passed. 

Check often with the No Casino Gettysburg Network website for updates and details, and ways to contact your Pennsylvania State Assembly members. 

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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

• For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
• For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
• For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
• For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
• For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
• For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
• For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
• For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren:
• We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
• We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
• We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare:
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,
and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved;
and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce,
and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

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