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My dad was actually born and raised in Pennslyvania, so I know firsthand Penn State held themselves up as being different than other schools and their fans would often be the first ones to criticize other schools when they had problems. Joe Pa himself even criticized other coaches when they had problems. You have to excuse me if I dont have much sympathy for the criticism they are receiving now that it has been revealed that they arent much different than other schools and quite possibly worse in a lot of cases

Okay someone just emailed this to me and it very well and more than likely is false. Still this came from another teams website and was not written by myself or the person that emailed this to me. If this is true though, SHOCKED. Email follows:

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Posted: Today 12:31 AM
HUGE Sandusky news Looming

Okay this story is about to get VERY DEEP.....

One of my good friends who also works in the sport industry has a Dad who was a PGA golfer...Over the weekend he went to a function in Pittsburgh that featured former athletes and also many high ranking political and business leaders from Pennsylvania. Some names in attendance included Mario Lemieux.... and many Penn Staters including LaVar Arrington...so there were many filled in members of the sporting world... along with both politicians and attorneys.

According to MANY in attendance the situation is about to get a whole lot worse. The story from those on the inside was repeated exactly the same by multiple sources....okay here it goes.....

Jerry Sandusky was simply a pawn in a much much deeper scheme... Sandusky was actually running a child porn ring and many of the shower incidents were filmed (and get this apparently the tapes have been found) ....But there is more than what was allegedly leaked last week about this ( that report seemed to disappear as quick as it surfaced)

BUT WHO WAS HE RUNNING IT FOR....??

Well apparently he was running it for the Mafia in Philadelphia and this is why we have heard that the FBI is getting involved. Apparently there is a money trail both outgoing and incoming from Members of the Mafia and Sandusky directly to big time Penn State Boosters in which the money was funneled back into the program. Sandusky was apparently involved in some shady business deals with boosters and he would give them large sums of money (that was actually kickback money from the Mob) Apparently some boosters were actually filled in on what was going on but would not rat things out because they were fearful of the Mob and some others did not know but continued to funnel money into PSU from Sandusky.

And the final kicker... the DA that was/is missing.... well apparently a source is going to step forward that has knowledge that he was working on a case that was going to bring down members of the Mob as well as Sandusky and implicate JoPa had knowledge of what was going on way back in 2004.... then all of a sudden just 1 month before he had the case prepared he turned up missing...take a guess on who was responsible there??? Sure sounds like he got knocked off in order to save PSU and the mob

(Stolen from OSU team site)

Like I said,

It seemed WAY to out there to be true. I just found it ironic that someone emailed this to me after I asked this question. I actually have seen that OSU fans have jumped out of the woodworks more than anyone else during this whole fiasco.

Again, not saying that it was true or I believed it but it's an interesting read nonetheless.

Yeah, I saw that you put that. I'm just amused overall by the conspiracy theory.

There's a very clear agenda by several fan groups. Maryland, Pitt, and OSU in particular. Don't mind them.

Well if that's true, the ESPN story saying "A source who has reviewed all the early 2001 emails said the few that have been leaked 'are definitely out of context. We think the one that was released was the worst one for everybody'" wouldn't have been close to correct.

Absolutely. I've been trying to decide which DL I'm more excited to watch - Dareus, Mario Williams, or Kyle Williams.

You can argue either way - that it will be bad for Paterno, or that it won't be real bad. Usually the latter argument says that the leaks are meant to be controversial and thus they're the worst ones. And frankly, those emails really aren't that bad, unless people make a lot of assumptions that aren't inherent in the text of the emails.

Wait, disregard my last post. Didn't realize Louis Freeh was posting on the board already.

Why can't you just wait a couple weeks till it comes out? I do think that's likely what the report will say, but why pawn it off as fact when you can just wait a few weeks?

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I appreciate it. I do think that's a very fair response.

I think that's most likely what happened, but I'll give you an alternative:

Curley sets up what to do after talking to Joe the first time. Then Curley calls Joe a few days later when deciding what his course of action would be and says "Joe, tell me one more time, what exactly did McQueary say to you." Joe says "he said he thinks he saw something sexual with a boy." (that was McQueary and Joe's testimony, so I'm going off that). Curley then rethinks it and goes "Hmm, we're not exactly sure what happened, let's not go to the police yet and let's talk to Sandusky first."

I agree, this is probably not likely, but it's certainly one possible way that this could be out of context. I'm very happy to find out more of this email trail and see what they did know. I just want the damn truth at this point instead of crap single sentence leaks that are overscrutinized. Hopefully we hear everything.

As for the "no PSU fans will believe it without a notarized letter," that's probably not true. Many will, some won't. But if the report said "nothing to see here" (which it won't), how many people outside of PSU would have said "That's made up crap to sweep it further under the rug." Probably a similar percentage to how many PSU fans wouldn't believe some of the report. It works both ways.

I agree with this, just as some would say "it's all a lie and coverup" if the report went the other way and showed nobody knew (which it won't). Some people have their judgments made no matter what happens, and nothing will change that. The problem is many think those groups represent the majority on each side, which is simply false.