Wednesday Inbox: Ex-Penn St. player claims Sandusky watched game from president’s box a week before his arrest
Jan 11, 2012, 4:37 PM EDT
Reuters What did the Penn State administration know, and when did they know it? In an interview with ESPN’s Outside the Lines today, former Penn State linebacker Brandon Short said that two sources at the university told him that Jerry Sandusky watched the Illinois-Penn State game from the university president’s Beaver Stadium box just one week before his arrest on charges of child sexual assault.
The explosive revelation came during an interview with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” but Short could not say whether former president Graham Spanier invited Sandusky into his box or whether Sandusky walked in uninvited.
Short said members of the Penn State board of trustees were also in the box for the Oct. 29 victory over Illinois. This is especially damaging considering a statement made by Penn State interim president Rodney Erickson to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Erickson told the paper that then-president Graham Spanier briefed the board of trustees about the Sandusky grand jury investigation in May or June of 2011. [From Fox Tampa Bay]
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- bjg5091 - Jan 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM
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Okay Brandon Short is probably the last person you want to believe about anything related to Penn State right now. He was audibly upset about the Bill O’Brien hiring. He and LaVar Arrington acted like children about the whole ordeal. Short is going to do anything to make Penn State look bad, even if it includes lying. Until we hear this from other, more legitimate, sources, I wouldn’t take too much stock into this yet.
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- bigtganks - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:40 PM
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Yah, I’m sure he’s pretending he was in the Box there. PSU has lost the benefit of the doubt to anything.
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- medtxpack - Jan 12, 2012 at 5:30 PM
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i still dont like trusting sources that are relying on two other un-named sources….
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- Tom G - Jan 11, 2012 at 9:42 PM
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PSU just cannot get out of their own way.
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- ballsooharduniversity - Jan 11, 2012 at 10:16 PM
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sick bastard…
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- Penn State Myke - Jan 12, 2012 at 7:52 PM
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Reblogged this on Mykesayssold's Blog.
