[NU Sports] Sandusky's Interview

[Evans Schoeman]

Two things struck me about the interview tonight.

The first was Sandusky's long pauses before he answered questions that should 
have been simple to an innocent man:  "are you a pedophile?" and "are you 
sexually attracted to young boys"?  To me, that spoke volumes.

The second was the expression on Costas' face when he spoke to Brian Williams 
after his phone conversation with Sandusky.  It looked like a combination of 
anger and disgust.

Unless they wait a generation for the trial, I don't know how they will find an 
impartial jury in Pennsylvania.





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Subject: [NU Sports] Sandusky's Interview


I saw most of the telephonic interview on Brian Williams' Newsmagazine show 
tonight.  Bob Costas conducted the interview, and he was tough and focused as a 
questioner.  As a former prosecutor who now does a limited amount of criminal 
defense work, I am somewhat amazed that Sandusky's attorney not only allowed him 
to be interviewed, but sat next to Costas on-camera as his client was 
questioned.  The Pennsylvania Attorney General must have been very happy to have 
Sandusky admit in a recorded statement to the showers and the 
touching---assuming that Sandusky might want to take the stand at trial, the 
more the prosecutor knows about what he is going to say, the easier it is to 
prepare for cross-examination.  The defense seems to be that he didn't engage in 
the sexual acts alleged, and the attorney said they have found the boy (now a 
young man) who was with Sandusky in the showers when McQueary walked in, and 
hinted that he will support Sandusky's version.  We shall see--my money
  is on the Commonwealth (prosecution).

This story is just growing and growing and growing.......or to put it more 
bluntly, metastasizing.

I think it very possible that PSU will decline a bowl bid, although if they make 
it fhrough to the BT Championship Game, I would expect them to play.  One reason 
was alluded to in one of today's posts.  If they don't go to a bowl, then the 
remaining staff will be free to look for new jobs--which will be a difficult 
task in any circumstance.  However, if they do go bowling, then those assistants 
will have to remain focused on trhe bowl game, not their futures.  Plus, a bowl 
is viewed as a celebration and a reward--two concepts that seem out of place at 
this juncture.

Paul Levinson
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