Freeh Report on Sandusky and PSU BOMBSHELL: What They Missed
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I posted PNC still sponsoring PSU, if you check them out they are tied to BofA as follows:
PNC owns about 35% of publicly traded fund manager BlackRock, which specializes in fixed-income products. BlackRock merged with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in October 2006, and is now co-owned between PNC, Bank of America, and Barclays. BlackRock’s ties to PNC are evident in that company’s logo, as they use the same typeface as PNC does in its own logo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNC_Financial_Services
The BlackRock team spun out of Blackstone and became an independent financial services firm. Larry Fink cut a deal with the PNC Financial Services Group when they purchased 70% of BlackRock. Subsequently, PNC contributed a number of its other asset management subsidiaries into BlackRock which then consolidated the various entities into an integrated asset management firm. In 1999, with $165 billion in assets under management, the firm went public although PNC remained its dominant shareholder.
BlackRock grew organically, through lift-outs [6] and their first acquisition was on January 28, 2005 when they purchased State Street Research Management, a mutual-fund business that had previously been owned by MetLife. This acquisition added a sizable equity business to BlackRock’s funds. On September 29, 2006, BlackRock completed its merger with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), halving PNC’s ownership and giving Merrill Lynch a 49.5-percent stake in the company. On October 1, 2007, BlackRock acquired the fund-of-funds business of Quellos Capital Management.[7] On April 30, 2009, BlackRock hired 43 employees from R3 Capital Management, LLC and took control of the $1.5 billion fund.
BlackRock Financial Management Inc. has been retained by the New York Fed to manage and eventually liquidate the assets held in a newly formed Delaware limited liability company (LLC) to fund the purchase of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) from the securities lending portfolio of several regulated U.S. insurance subsidiaries of AIG. [8]
BlackRock is currently one of the largest shareholders of Apple Inc., owning 3.5%, valued close to $20 billion, across its funds.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock
@erose. I read Greer. what did he think would happen, writing a nonfiction piece trashing any student by name? Didn’t need to be the gov’s. Wise of Spanier to remove self proactively from tenure decision, tho Greer didn’t get that far, as Greer seems as fixated on him as an angel of darkness and remains so after all these years. For well written infighting on Engl faculties, one can see Carolyn Heilbrun. Happens everywhere. Greer has unattainable men on a pedestal (Malamud, Roth) or deconstructed (Spanier). Says more about him.
I’m signing off for what I expect will be a good while. Opportunity to do some travel came unexpectedly; am furiously packing tonite.
I did notice tonite that Christopher G. Lee is still in the race, running for PA House of Representatives, 171st district. A redistricting plan for the state was finalized not long ago. The 171st still includes much of Centre County (also Mifflin). You can keep up by googling; and he tweets!
Wouldn’t that just be smashingly serendipitous if he won? Someone’ll need to send Amendola a newspaper clipping on that.
Hugs to all. Esp to Blink; I’m thinking of you muchly these days.
You and that whirlwind life of shared electronics and healthy eating, lol
You will be dearly missed and hurry back. xoxo
B
I feel out of sync with MSM. Awhile ago I wanted nothing more than to see someone print words like this. Now I question the Freeh report, and why only four who took the fall, when clearly the BOT, Baldwin, Courtney, Raykovitz, and Corbett are all flying under the radar. I don’t think we do the victims any favors by wrapping this up so fast and I am continually frustrated by the track this is on.
Penn State scandal: Have we already forgotten who the real victims are?
The more everybody focuses on win totals, legacies, bowl bans and scholarship reductions, the more that culture stays entrenched.
http://www.masslive.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/07/penn_state_scandal_have_we_alr.html
I completely agree with you erose, and again I apologize on the demands on my time recently, and for the foreseeable next week at a minimum. I seriously believed that within a few days, what I viewed as “what the report missed” would be heavily chronicled everywhere so I am as flummoxed as you are.
Their is some odd sort of ” MSM trending” going on.
B
@Rose
I never did get to link into the Joshua story to form an opinion, but I found the potential for Spanier and the pedophile governor having a relationship interesting. Appreciate your take on the Greer’s sour grapes.
If we are to believe Bucceroni, the basic idea that these wealthy pedophiles donate to politicians, and like Beejay states the party affiliation is irrelevant, and these politicians or their machines cater to the perverted whims of their donors and have upped the ante with troubled children, which begs the question of the donors at PSU, and who did the catering, IMO.
http://www.phillytrib.com/newsarticles/item/3861-two-charged-with-racketeering-in-n-j.html
look at this. there is a Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra “known for its violence” that stretches to a No Jersey region capo among whose activities is “sports gambling.”
Nothing has been written about Jerry’s friendship circles and associates of decades.
You know, all those friends he complained deserted him as soon as he was indicted .
I’d like to know who he regularly associated with? Was it Poole, Courtney, Woodie, Dranov,
etcetc.
I’ve never been to a PSU football game, nor watched more than a snippet or two on television, despite free tickets a couple of times. I plan our football weekend schedules to avoid the brouhaha. That said, the wave of comments from those who don’t think the sanctions are severe enough puzzles me. I think it is the same thing that Blink and erose are observing in MSM–this need to smash all the people associated with the football program, and to further damage all of us who live and work here. The rage and indignation seems to need to have found a broad target to pound, rather than looking further and deeper for those really at fault.
I just read a wave of anger at O’Brien for “still not getting it” in his comments about being glad that the team can play, and play on television. O’Brien wasn’t here between 1998 to 2011, and if his comments are that skewed, then the target of anger and sanctions needs to be ALL of college football, not just Penn State.
I sincerely hope that ongoing external investigations are not resting where the internal Freeh report stopped, and that the attention and anger now moves from the football program, where the house has been pretty much cleared out of Sandusky cronies and enablers.
P.S. Apparently Erickson didn’t consult the full BOTs before signing the consent to the sanctions. That thought keeps surfacing in my mind . . .
P.P.S. What’s with Spanier’s “I was abused” plus “I’m a family therapist” defense splashed in the media? That’s not a new story, but I’m not clear why he is defending himself in the media and to the BOT in this way. It just seems off and odd to me.
re-reading TSM donor list (p6ff) 09-10 based on what we now know:
http://www.thesecondmile.org/pdf/AnnualReport2010.pdf
I would expect those in the know about Sandusky to NOT be on the list by this year.
I don’t see names of the Freeh Fallen Four. Interestingly Garban is there (former BOT Chair).
Deadspin put up alink to TSM tax returns dating back to 1997, which doubtless was linkedhere.
Since it wouldn’t enlarge for reading, I went to Guidestar & cursorily skimmed 08 & 09.
Good source forlists of those shifting Directors. Amazing quarter mill payment in 09 to the architect. Loss on investments in 08–it bothers me they don’t list the names of the equity funds; I’ve seen returns that do. This place was not only a breeding ground for boys, it was a cash cow for others. Btw Garban listed as a Dir on 08 return.
1985 Bylaws revised in Nov 09 are appended to 2009 return.
The focus needs to return to TSM, Jerry & associates imo.
Freeh has been a big distraction from criminal investigation & litigation.
Anyone have TSM’s Annual Reports on file dating to mid-90s?
Was there a time when Paternos donated consecutively yearly?
Was there a year they ceased to donate permanently?
ditto for Curley & Schultz. I know that’s “circumstantial evidence,” but what
the heck, so’s the Freeh Report.
any Annual Report urls out there earlier than 2005′s?
Garban btw gets the award for yearly donor loyalty to TSM. He was
ill used by Jerry & imo kept in the dark by PS 4.
Oops! The Freeh Report has factual errors.
http://deadspin.com/penn-state-scandal/
Since Freeh made the report public July 12, he has gotten a lot of criticism about the objectivity of what he concluded.
Among those questioning it is Sen. Jake Corman, who said he is waiting for the criminal trials before making a decision, and would have like to seen the NCAA — which imposed harsh sanctions on Penn State this week — opt not to rely on the Freeh report.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/penn_state_freeh_report_update.html
Annual reports for TSM should have been filed with the Department of State’s Bureau of Charitable Organizations. Surely Sara Ganim has FOIAed those by now? For as many years as are kept on record, at least. Of course, those would be more minimal than the types of annual reports that are posted online, but should have the financials.
in the TSM annual reports that are on line (2005ff) iirc J Corman appears on the Board in two successive years late in the day. So he’s probably covering his own A. It was interesting to see new donors over time — those in building & construction. Suppose they were positioning to subcontract.
I want to know what year the F Four (fab, fall-guys, fallen, forlorn — name that F) ceased to donate, esp Paterno.
With Joe so generous , and TSM so intertwined with PS football, it’s remarkable he wasn’t giving.
Tho a John Curley, I assume related, did donate a couple years.
01-07-01 Sandusky article re: head coaching @ VA state, perhaps some mention of his inner circle, at least professional inner circle.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hQNWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B0ENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5724,987559&dq=second-mile+sandusky&hl=en
Yes.
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did Raykovitz appear before the Sandusky grand jury?
it’s still meeting, right?
is he a target?
pictures being worth a thousand words
http://www.statecollege.com/shot-on-site/2ndmile.php
Includes transcription of JS’s phone calls to victim 2.
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/26/3274073/victim-2-in-jerry-sandusky-case.html
Eeeww. Imo, the most damning thing in there is the part about really nothing to hide.
googling up katherine genovese, of Boalsburg, one sees her first job after graduating from her second PS degree in 1984 was been hired by TSM in 1984. So how does a gal recoup when ber two adult self-identities are Penn State (both degrees and Alumni activities) and TSM after 28 years, at her age?
Personally, I’d start in L Kelly’s office with my arm out for polys, then I’d beg PS for a job, any job, secretary or janitress. have they kids?
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=16862878
Rose, you’re right that John Curley, donor, is related to Tim Curley.
The brothers are listed in their mother’s obituary (dod 12-23-110:
…Stephen R. Curley (Judith) State College; John J. Curley and his wife, Kathleen, of Clifton Park, NY, Michael K. Curley and his fiance, Mary Rodman of Mechanicsburg, Timothy M. Curley and his wife, Melinda of State College, William G. Curley and his wife, Barbara of Beech Creek, and Terence P. Curley and his wife, Lorrie of Chester, Va.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?n=florence-s-curley&pid=155166557#storylink=cpy
Refreshing my memory here:
Tim Curley has been battling lung cancer since 2010.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2012/01/report-former-penn-state-ad-curley-battling-lung-cancer/1
Curley has five brothers
http://034fccc.netsolhost.com/WordPress/tim-curley/
A Penn State grad, Curley earned a degree in Counseling in 1978.
http://034fccc.netsolhost.com/WordPress/tim-curley/
OT but Penn State related. Former women’s basketball coach, Rene Portland, was sued and fired for discriminating against a lesbian(s) player(s).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Portland
Victim #2 found.
Erose- was this the right link and I am not tuned in to your observation? If so, my dear friend and razor/laser-researcher, I may need a boost over the fence.
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STATEMENT OF LEGAL TEAM FOR SANDUSKY VICTIM NUMBER 2
http://www.rossfellercasey.com/sandusky-voicemail
Nov 2011
But select members of the charity’s board of directors were alarmed to learn recently that when the records facility went to retrieve them, some of those records—from about 2000 to 2003—were missing.
The attorney general’s office was notified of the missing files, people with knowledge of the case said. Subsequently, the foundation located apparently misfiled records from one of the years, but the rest seem to have disappeared.
http://deadspin.com/5860507/new-psu-revelations-message-boards-key-to-investigation-reluctant-victims-and-second-mile-has-missing-documents
Blink, Rose and all- it is my understanding that the shower victim may have come forward- through his lawyer- but to my knowledge he has not been named publicly the prosecutors say they can not comment-
and there seems to be some talk that he may not be THE victim #2 others have no doubt.
Not sure what is going on.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/trustees-sanctions-better-football-ban-063918993–ncaaf.html
Lawyers: Shower abuse victim to sue Penn State
snipped:
Now, for the first time, a man has come forward to claim he was that boy, and is threatening to sue the university…..
Further snipped:
‘Our client has to live the rest of his life not only dealing with the effects of Sandusky’s childhood sexual abuse, but also with the knowledge that many powerful adults, including those at the highest levels of Penn State, put their own interests and the interests of a child predator above their legal obligations to protect him,” the lawyers said in a news release.
They did not name their client, and The Associated Press generally does not identify victims of sex crimes without their consent.
AJMO
It was supposed to be an article about victim #2, in fact the next post had that link within the article. I did have a security issue today, and had to shut down so my history is gone. WTH did it link to?
Erose- was this the right link and I am not tuned in to your observation? If so, my dear friend and razor/laser-researcher, I may need a boost over the fence.
B
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/26/3274073/victim-2-in-jerry-sandusky-case.html
@erose
An older jer article discussing his turn down at uva.
Dottie loves Jerry…..belch. Is this her way of appearing to be in denial, as opposed to complicit?
http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/26/3274756/dottie-sandusky-says-convicted.html
I have a particular disdain for this woman. Even IF she were able to convince herself that nothing was going on, in her efforts to maintain mind numbing denial, she failed to protect children from events that occurred IN HER HOME. One of which, was her own adopted son, who she helped alienate from his birth family.
If Jer was calling vic #2 less than a year ago and offering to take him to a game, she also knows the identity of the man. Nobody will ever be able to convince me that an intimate partner of over 40 years with a raging Adult serial criminal pedophile goes undetected from his wife.
B
Which is it? Spanier, Curley and Schultz all claimed on the record she was their counsel. She claimed after the fact she was there for the university. The Freeh report implicates her in the cover up and shows her interests towards the administrators, yet Spanier has turned on her, because he thinks she turned on him. Whose team is she on?
In my mind, there is an unidentified force in this scenario. Someone who poised Baldwin to in this order of priority 1)protect this “force” whomever they are, ie donor or trustee 2) protect the institution and 3)”manage” these men. Apparently she failed on #2 and #3, and is still protecting whomever is behind door #1, IMO.
A former state Supreme Court justice who once served as president of Penn State’s board of trustees, Baldwin became the university’s top lawyer in 2010 just as the Sandusky investigation began to reach its climax. And throughout, De Monaco argued, “she upheld her duties to the university and its agents.”
snip>
She has declined to comment since resigning last month, days after a Centre County jury convicted the former assistant football coach of 45 counts of child sex abuse.
She “has chosen to maintain confidentiality and to uphold her ethical obligations to her client, the university,” De Monaco said.
Freeh characterized Baldwin’s representation of Penn State’s interests as “seriously deficient.”
He singled her out in his report, alleging she worked alongside Spanier, Curley, and Schultz to hide the gravity of the Sandusky investigation from trustees.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-26/news/32870429_1_grand-jury-jerry-sandusky-sandusky-investigation
I have to say, their may be sufficient evidence to conclude she KNEW testimony her clients were giving inaccurate. However, unless she subjorned it, I doubt highly an ethical complaint of that nature would be forthcoming. Was she in conflict imo, between her representations? Absolutely.
That said, I still say I am dumbfounded that these individuals with the level of individual academic background achieved both personally and what they had access to in terms of faculty did not seek individual consults at a minimum. Of course, maybe that hampered the access to the asscovering funds.
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Exxon Valdez, TWA 800 & Cynthia Baldwin
About De Monaco – The $1.1 billion criminal and civil settlements obtained by the Justice Department represent the largest comprehensive settlement in the history of law enforcement. De Monaco also prosecuted major environmental cases in Pittsburgh, Miami, Anchorage, San Juan and Washington, D.C., and provides representation regarding litigation and restoration regarding the Florida Everglades, as well as other matters involving environmental, securities and director and officer litigation. He obtained his law degree from Ohio Northern University in 1974.
http://www.foxrothschild.com/newspubs/newspubsArticle.aspx?id=6842
TWA Flight 800
Testimony of William A. Tobin, former chief metallurgist, Federal
Bureau of Investigation; accompanied by Charles A. DeMonaco,
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-106shrg65055/html/CHRG-106shrg65055.htm
No boost required, I definitely posted the wrong link. Going to have to sharpen the razor.
Christina Stoy says:
July 27, 2012 at 12:03 am
Governor Corbett Answers Question on Penn State Scandal
“Cause we didn’t have the evidence earlier. I’ve answered this question and I’m going to be patient here with you and I’ve answered this question 100 times, you do not rush these prosecutions. You do not bring a prosecution based on one case like this. You work and try to get other witnesses. And that’s exactly what the men and women in the attorney general’s office did.”
http://yourerie.com/fulltext?nxd_id=247212
Baffoon.
B
@Blink.
This is the url erose posted on loss of VA coaching job back in the day due to his splitting his coaching attention with TSM (bottom right of the lefthand page):
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hQNWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B0ENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5724,987559&dq=second-mile+sandusky&hl=en
fwiw:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/07/27/santorum-blasts-freeh-report-psu_n_1710702.html
The NCAA accepted the report because the BOT adopted it.
What else would the BOT have done?
Said we wasted $6 million?
@Rose says:
July 27, 2012 at 5:27 pm
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The date correction from 2002 to 2001 was partly verified by this happening just after he was dropped for the VA job. I wondered back when this was first mentioned whether getting caught was some recklessness (or in your face stuff) after someone at Penn State (Paterno? Curley? Schultz?) sandbagged him off-the-record with VA. If so, why did he think (correctly) that they’d let him get away with it?
Or, another way to look at it would be to ask: WHO was protecting him? And WHO was sandbagging him?
Well we now know that the exact same reason JoePa used to deny him the head coaching job is the exact same reason UVA chose to decline an offer. I find it interesting it seems the intent was to keep an eye on him, but nobody did, apparently.
B
Just so you don’t think I’m nuts. This is what I am responding to. You can delete this and that.
Erose- was this the right link and I am not tuned in to your observation? If so, my dear friend and razor/laser-researcher, I may need a boost over the fence.
B
erose says:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
July 27, 2012 at 4:41 am
No boost required, I definitely posted the wrong link. Going to have to sharpen the razor.
Christina Stoy says:
July 27, 2012 at 12:03 am
@Lizzy, I keep thinking Sandusky had information on someone which allowed him to have an upper hand in negotiating his retirement, otherwise he should have been out on his butt. What would he have done? Admitted he was ousted because he was a pedophile? Also – Do you think the Freeh Report backfired on the BOT in light of the NCAA sanctions, and how heavily they relied on the information in that report?
Lizzy
The activities of most big football programs and their coaches are not an unknown thing to other schools. There was no way to keep the information about JS activities totally quiet when he applied to VA for a job.
There are people in management positions in companys and schools that will try to move an incompetent to another location just to get them out of their way. However, PSU had a major problem with JS in that what he was doing was criminal. If they didn’t do something to give other schools the heads up, they would possibly be liable for helping to move a known criminal to another school. Someone in the PSU program just probably called and said to VA that they had problems with JS and did not elaborate. IMO those who were protecting and sandbagging JS were one and the same.
Rick Santorum’s comments about the Freeh Report were his dislike of something terrible happening to the football program as a result of it. Rick to me is a strange guy. He has a lot of good values, but I think his judgement on issues is poor.
Is the Freeh Report all that it could be? IMO from the get go, it would be some sort of lightweight report designed to be as light on the school as he could make it. It really suprised me that the report was as forceful as we found it. There are only four people directly affected in the report other than JS.
Did the Freeh Report get other facts and names of people that were peripherial to the acts, and helped to provide the cover up? IDK. All we saw was the final report, not the infomation to build it.
@Erose. WRT the NCAA, the BOT should have said “We will take the Freeh Report under advisement for study and will implement good governance and internal policy recommendations promptly. While Mr Freeh has fulfilled his contractual duties and is discharged, key participants integral to the events in question have not been heard from and cannot be expected to comment until the conclusion of current criminal litigation on the matter of their grand jury testimony. They have stated they were not prepared and lacked office documents necessary to refresh their recollections. We believe their input is necessary, and others may be necessary, to complete this internal investigation to the satisfaction of the BOT and public with regard to whether any PS employees were negligant in tge performance of their duties. . We look forward to a prompt criminal trial and fact-finding by the Court.”
Personally, I think JP informed JS he was not head coach material due to his lack of drive and focus at that level, and I would have asked him to demonstrate his commitment to coaching by resigning from TSM or leave. JS chose the latter. It may have had nothing to do with the 98 incident.
Did Erikson make a deal with PMA, or is another PSU insurance company coming in to cover the claims?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pennsylvania State University has enough insurance coverage to deal with lawsuits that might result from its child sexual abuse scandal, President Rodney Erickson said.
The school wants to settle any lawsuits “as quickly as possible,” Erickson reaffirmed in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” program that airs on Sunday.
http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20120728&id=15386966
PHILADELPHIA — Penn State’s general liability insurer hopes to deny or limit coverage for Jerry Sandusky-related claims.
The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance argues that Penn State withheld key information needed to assess risk, at least after school officials investigated a May 1998 complaint that Sandusky had showered with a boy on campus.
In a memo filed this week in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, the company argues that Penn State failed to disclose that it had information about Sandusky that “was material to the insurable risk assumed by PMA.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/07/penn_states_insurance_company.html
Whassup with Erikson. First he takes the NCAA deal without so much as a phone call to the BOT, and now he pledges insurance money that is tied up in court. Does he know something about the BOT that we don’t? Is he talking in the affirmative about the insurance money because he wants PMA to take notice they are on the hook? I just don’t get it.
Seriously.
B
I like your statement of how the BOT should have responded. No one is responding the way we think they should, which to me means a lot more is going on behind the scenes.
The BOT sought and bought that report, and four men, one who can no longer defend himself, end up as the fall guys. The same four men that the BOT in their frenzy to act, either fired or demoted. Wow, 400+ people, 3.5 million documents perused and Freeh came up with the same conclusion the BOT came up with in a nanosecond.
Of course the BOT was reprimanded for not being proactive, except of course, we are to conclude when the poop hit the fan, then they made stellar decisions. Nothing more to see here, move along. Yeah, right. Something is up on that BOT, and Erikson’s failure to recognize them on the NCAA sanctions makes me wonder what Erikson knows that we don’t. Makes me think the power brokers are the BOT are no longer relevant, as in they will need some of those asscovering funds themselves, perhaps even why donations are drying up.
I get what you are saying about Sandusky’s 1998 retirement, and you have Louis Freeh to back you up, and you are really smart, so chances are you are right. I just can’t buy that scenario, yet. Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence, but if the retirement package was approved by Spanier and the BOT, it kind of lines up with my previous thoughts. Paterno might have been the King, but who ran the Parliament?
Rose says:
July 28, 2012 at 7:27 pm
What is Erikson thinking and doing? WTHeck is going on to dismiss the BOT, the very people who have control over his employment. Is he trying to get out of the gig? Are they too tired to question this? Do they not want another investigation in to the firing of another top administrator? Or, are they all afraid to email anymore?
President Erickson was quoted today as saying that Penn State accepted that deal because if not, you would have decided to suspend play. Can you confirm that?
Ray: I’ve known Rod for a long time. I didn’t hear what he said. I was on a plane flying back to Oregon. But I can tell you categorically, there was never a threat made to anyone about suspension of play if the consent decree was not agreed to.
So it wasn’t as though you said, “Take this deal or we’re shutting you down”?
Ray: That was never even a point of discussion within either the executive committee or the Division I board.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/53812/qa-ed-ray-discusses-psu-sanctions