Originally posted by HuskerBlueDevil:
There's a little bit of difference between the two situations. First of all, there was no cover-up. LP was booted off the team. Then the athletic department, because the people there actually care about the kids, sent LP down to the Meininger Clinic in Kansas for treatment, a clinic with a world class reputation for treating anger disorders. He spent 5 days there on the athletic department's dime, which wasn't cheap. The doctors at the clinic put together a treatment plan for LP that required he be given the carrot of earning his way back on the team by following through with the plan. According to the professionals who supposedly knew what they were talking about, that was the only way the plan would work. Still, Coach Osborne initially rejected the plan, saying LP was done at NU. It was only after a meeting with the doctors that TO went with the plan. He added a number of stipulations of his own, including an agreement that LP declare of the NFL draft after that year (yeah, at football first schools you always force an AA running back out of the program). LP met all the goals, and so earned his way back on the team.
Oh, and explain to me again how NU needed LP. NU was averaging more yards/game rushing without him, although it was close, something like 411 to 407. The starter was a kid named Ahman Green, not exactly a slouch. Plus bringing him back caused some dissension on the team, something that a football first coach would have avoided like the plague (Tommie Frazier, among others, came out publically and said he didn't want LP back on the team).
Now, once again, how did JoePa and the others at PSU publically acknowledge Sandusky's "problem", work to help him deal with it, and publically support him?
