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Sex and the Convenient Excuse
Greg Schiano.
In his first year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team was a semi-respectable 7-9 but tumbled to 4-12 in his second year and ranked in the bottom of nearly every offensive category. He, and the General Manager who hired him, were shown the door. Unable to find college or pro work he ended up at Berkeley Preparatory School until Urban Meyer hired him as the Defensive Coordinator at the Ohio State University.
This weekend he was offered the Head Coaching position at Tennessee. When word leaked out, Vol Nation blew up. But no self-respecting university wants to let the inmates run the asylum. So what could they use for an out?
Along his path to the head coaching ranks Schiano spent time on Joe Paterno’s staff and was there when the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal brought down the legendary Penn State coach. Another assistant coach, Mike McQueary, testified in a civil suit that he heard through another coach that Schiano had actually witnessed Sandusky molesting a child. Schiano has consistently denied that.
Everyone who was against the hire has decided that this third-hand allegation was just the ticket. While supposedly Schiano and the Tennessee Athletic Director had come to a basic contract agreement and had signed a Memorandum of Understanding, the offer has now been rescinded.
Greg Schiano may or not be a good football coach but if he actually did not witness Sandusky engaging in illegal acts should the mob be able to use this excuse to have a veto over the rest of his professional life?
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We aren’t and we shouldn’t be. Penn St can hire him, they have had 2 chances to…..
For some context, Schiano arrived at Penn. St in 1990 as a graduate assistant. He was defensive backfield coach for five years, 1991-1995, departing before the ’96 season. Sandusky was defensive coordinator for that entire period.
We aren’t and we shouldn’t be. Penn St can hire him, they have had 2 chances to do just that. Also, Ohio st lawyered up and started the damage control planning after the court documents came out naming Schiano. Quit trying to make this, at the minimum a bully, out as a poor victim
Yeah but he had no idea…….just like everyone else there at the time. Suuuuuure
I didn’t even mention his NFL record. The problem with his time in Tampa is his behavior there which I pointed out. It’s all documented about St Schiano
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000268792/printable/greg-schiano-loses-tampa-bay-buccaneers-with-autocratic-style
To be fair, Texas A&M is trying to determine exactly how many Brinks trucks are required to seduce Jimbo Fisher from FSU. This is after they already sent a couple Brinks trucks home with Sumlin.
We can’t all be Scott Frost.
Because the Sandusky scandal is but a symptom of a much larger cultural problem at PSU. There are many tens of thousands of people who would gladly bury what happened and bury anything happening today and whatever happens tomorrow if only their beloved idols win on Saturday.
They covered for Sandusky. They covered for Dr. Mann’s fake “Hockey Stick.” They covered campus crime statistics. The whole place is a religious cult.