re: If Madden is right that Sandusky was a "poorly kept secret" around CFB

I'm just referring to PSU. Perhaps I wasn't clear. My bad

This is dumb, but for argument's sake, you're a coach at Nebraska. And someone tells you a retired PS coach molested a child back in 2002. The person that told you doesn't have any evidence and isn't willing to go to the cops. What would you do about it?

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This is dumb, but for argument's sake, you're a coach at Nebraska. And someone tells you a retired PS coach molested a child back in 2002. The person that told you doesn't have any evidence and isn't willing to go to the cops. What would you do about it?

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Yea, the only thing that you might be able to do in this instance is leak it out to the media. But even that probably wouldn't go that far, unless deadspin gets a hold of it.

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This is dumb, but for argument's sake, you're a coach at Nebraska. And someone tells you a retired PS coach molested a child back in 2002. The person that told you doesn't have any evidence and isn't willing to go to the cops. What would you do about it?

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Since I suffer from being an attorney, I'd probably press the person who told me on where he/she got the information. If the person was an eyewitness (which is contrary to your assumption), I'd try to convince him/her to go to the cops. If not, I would (unless the communication was somehow privileged). If it is hearsay (i.e., the person tells me he heard someone else say that something happened), it becomes harder to decide to take action. If the person says, "X told me he saw this happen," I guess I would want to know what X really said before I brought the cops down on the alleged perp with so little credible evidence.

Just for the sake of argument, let's say you give Sandusky a pass on the 1998 claim, it's still in the back of your mind though. Now, fast forward to 2002, and you hear about him raping a child on campus, is there any logical reason why you wouldn't then go to the police?

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there any logical reason why you wouldn't then go to the police?

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No Way unless there is graft, payoff, blackmail

There was also a janitor who saw stuff going on and did nothing...apparently the culture of covering stuff up over there runs from the bottom to the top.

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Among coaches at different schools? Im gonna need to see some evidence before I go down that road

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Yeah, most likely this was a well guarded secret. I am not buying the idea that college coaches were talking about this behind Sandusky's back. Some may have suspected but I imagine the principals in this story kept this a closely guarded secret.

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Some may have suspected

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Think about it, you know someone who shows up with a "girlfriend" for the Bowl game, what are you thinking, honestly.

So now you have a guy who repeatedly shows up with different "younger friends" he is just helping out. Maybe the first time or second time you believe this but at some point you flat stop.

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The damage won't stop at Penn State, at least in terms of negative perception. I asked the other day whether this might bring down the money machine that has become college sports. Not many people wanted to take a swing at the question, but I still think it's a possibility.

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If you're going to open up the can of worms and say this was a systematic conspiracy to protect the bread winner (the money making football machine) for the corporation (which colleges are now) then you can't keep your fingers only pointed at Penn State.

If people don't let this go at a sicko molester then the media are going to question the culture and organizational systems of how insular universities operate in small towns where coaches are Gods (they already have in some articles)...you could see this at so many other places happening...Alabama, Ohio State (remember the AD/President joking that Tressel might fire him and not the other way around) and if anything, and only if all this speculation is true...it reveals why trivial stuff like NCAA violations go unreported 97% of the time. If you get in trouble, you really were spied on and someone outside of your Cabal reported it. Inside the power programs with big time head coaches, there is still probably little objective outside oversight. So much money involved and the football coach is the the CEO of everyone's potential Enron. Everyone is trying to protect their corporate brand 24/7.