Jerry Sandusky coached the Juniata College D-III football team last season despite failing a background check, WHP-TV reports. WHP says Sandusky was denied an official coaching position for the team because he was being investigated. That didn’t stop him from reportedly attending practices, meetings, and all the team’s games.
Two players from the team say Sandusky would help call defensive signals from the press box. They say he would wait for the entire stadium to clear out before emerging from the press box after games. According to the report, the only documented evidence they have that Sandusky was coaching was a sighting at Franklin & Marshall College in September.
The head coach of the football team, Carmen Felus, reportedly was given distinct orders to keep Sandusky away from the team. He supposedly defied all orders, including one from the athletic director after the Franklin & Marshall sighting.
So what does all this mean? I think we can deduce two things.
One, Jerry Sandusky was still interested in coaching college football as recently as last year. Two, it shows that Sandusky can be defiant of rules and authority. He applied for a job and was denied, but that didn’t stop him from doing what he wanted to. Why would we have expected Penn State’s orders to stop him from coming on campus?
H/T Sports by Brooks
