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Review
A distinguished Penn State sport historian gives us an intriguing account of his institution's athletics history and daunting journey through a period of national humiliation in well-chosen, research-guided language that holds the reader's interest start to finish.--Joe Crowley, former president, NCAA
"With exhaustive primary source exploration and riveting exposition, superimposed on an examination of Penn State as a fulcrum, Ron Smith examines the 'real controllers' of college sport ”university presidents, boards of regents, and alumni ”each of which over time have tended to separate college athletics from an institution' intended academic purpose, and, as well, cast institutions into scandals of immense proportion, of which the Joe Paterno/Jerry Sandusky case thrust Penn State' Happy Valley utopia into an abyss of staggering anguish and disbelief."--Bob Barney, author of Selling the Five Rings: The IOC and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism
"Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of children. Smith's detailed history of sports administration at Penn State illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting priorities. The reader wonders what kept the individuals in power from not responding sooner and appropriately."--John Swisher, Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University
Book Description
A rogue program, an iconic coach, and an unspeakable tragedy
About the Author
Ronald A. Smith is a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and author of Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform .
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02...=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#iframe-wrapper
Review
A distinguished Penn State sport historian gives us an intriguing account of his institution's athletics history and daunting journey through a period of national humiliation in well-chosen, research-guided language that holds the reader's interest start to finish.--Joe Crowley, former president, NCAA
"With exhaustive primary source exploration and riveting exposition, superimposed on an examination of Penn State as a fulcrum, Ron Smith examines the 'real controllers' of college sport ”university presidents, boards of regents, and alumni ”each of which over time have tended to separate college athletics from an institution' intended academic purpose, and, as well, cast institutions into scandals of immense proportion, of which the Joe Paterno/Jerry Sandusky case thrust Penn State' Happy Valley utopia into an abyss of staggering anguish and disbelief."--Bob Barney, author of Selling the Five Rings: The IOC and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism
"Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of children. Smith's detailed history of sports administration at Penn State illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting priorities. The reader wonders what kept the individuals in power from not responding sooner and appropriately."--John Swisher, Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University
Book Description
A rogue program, an iconic coach, and an unspeakable tragedy
About the Author
Ronald A. Smith is a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and author of Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform .
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/02...=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#iframe-wrapper
The title tells you all you need to know. Two names appear. Joe Paterno is first. Jerry Sandusky is 2nd.
["Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of children. Smith's detailed history of sports administration at Penn State illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting priorities. The reader wonders what kept the individuals in power from not responding sooner and appropriately."--John Swisher, ProfessorEmeritus, Pennsylvania State University]
Well gee John Swisher - you're a professor emeritus - what were you doing to stop Sandusky in all your years at PSU? And the individuals in power who failed were the officials of Pa law enforcement and child welfare services but don't let the truth cloud your fairy tale world.
As for Ronald Smith, it's funny that when he was being quoted in Rick Telanders "Hundred yard lie" back in the late 80's he never accused PSU of being a rogue program or of having issues related to its governance. If PSU was so out if control why didn't Smith speak up then or write his book sooner? I guess this book is his confession that he also enabled Sandusky, or maybe he is jumping on the narrative created by Freeh and getting his 15 minutes of fame like that asshole Frank Noonan. It is amazing the lie these clowns live - how anyone can take them serious is beyond me. But again thank you BOT and the government of the state of Pennsylvania. Here's hoping swisher and smith do the world a favor in the new year and get run over by a bus. It's shit like this that make me want to tell the current university community to go **** itself.
Well gee John Swisher - you're a professor emeritus - what were you doing to stop Sandusky in all your years at PSU? And the individuals in power who failed were the officials of Pa law enforcement and child welfare services but don't let the truth cloud your fairy tale world.
As for Ronald Smith, it's funny that when he was being quoted in Rick Telanders "Hundred yard lie" back in the late 80's he never accused PSU of being a rogue program or of having issues related to its governance. If PSU was so out if control why didn't Smith speak up then or write his book sooner? I guess this book is his confession that he also enabled Sandusky, or maybe he is jumping on the narrative created by Freeh and getting his 15 minutes of fame like that asshole Frank Noonan. It is amazing the lie these clowns live - how anyone can take them serious is beyond me. But again thank you BOT and the government of the state of Pennsylvania. Here's hoping swisher and smith do the world a favor in the new year and get run over by a bus. It's shit like this that make me want to tell the current university community to go **** itself.
Talk about a inept BOT. How can you allow a professor emeritus to tear down the university?
He was a sports historian and taught at PSU for about 30 years, until the mid 90s. I talked to him several times back in the early 90s. If I remember correctly, he did his undergrad at Northwestern and Ph.D. at Wisconsin.
So he had it all figured out back in the early 90s? Why didn't he say something?
I always had the feeling he was ambivalent about Joe. Seems like he had an axe to grind.
If he left in the early 90s he wouldn't have have had any information about Sandusky in 1998 other than what he read through the media. If he did he was a coward for withholding it. The guy is obviously just an opportunistic scumbag looking to make a quick buck. I haven't read the book but a BOT with any backbone would sue his a$$ for defamation.
So which moniker does "Ronald A Smith" use on this board? I always wondered how certain "PSU insiders" could be so biased and misguided. Apparently being an academic pin-prick coupled with having emeritus status allows one to publish trash without repercussion.
I spoke with him in the early 90s. He retired in 1996 - I just looked it up. Pretty sure he still lives in the State College area.
I haven't read his book (don't plan to read it), so I have no idea what specifics he claims. This part of the Amazon blurb - "In Wounded Lions , acclaimed sport historian and longtime Penn State professor Ronald A. Smith draws from university archives to answer the How? and Why? at the heart of the scandal." - makes it seem that the source material for the conclusions he draws is there for all to see. Yet, there is this claim - "As Smith shows, decades of infighting among administrators, alumni, trustees, faculty, and coaches ... " Is this "decades of infighting" documented in the archives? I have a strong feeling the thesis of this book will be another house of cards argument.
Also doubt that he'll make very much on this book. Other than libraries, who would buy it?
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Emeritus status, pension, etc. should be given contingent upon not disparaging the university. That's standard operating procedure when private sector executives are given separation packages.
And IIRC, he also said long term problems existed in protecting the football program at the expense of academics. Where does this total bull sh/t come from? We're the only university that seems to have fratricide.
Well this is sensationalistic crap:
"Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of children. Smith's detailed history of sports administration at Penn State illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting priorities. The reader wonders what kept the individuals in power from not responding sooner and appropriately."--John Swisher, Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University
I can write this up more accurately:
"Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of Second Mile clients. Smith's detailed history of child welfare administration in the State of Pennsylvania illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting Second Mile & CYS priorities. The reader wonders what kept individuals in power, both at the Second Mile, Centre County Children & Youth Services, Pa DPW/DHS and the Office of Attorney General from not responding sooner and appropriately"
"Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of children. Smith's detailed history of sports administration at Penn State illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting priorities. The reader wonders what kept the individuals in power from not responding sooner and appropriately."--John Swisher, Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University
I can write this up more accurately:
"Smith thoroughly documents decades of events that led to the Sandusky abuse of Second Mile clients. Smith's detailed history of child welfare administration in the State of Pennsylvania illustrates how the abuse evolved and was ignored in a cloud of conflicting Second Mile & CYS priorities. The reader wonders what kept individuals in power, both at the Second Mile, Centre County Children & Youth Services, Pa DPW/DHS and the Office of Attorney General from not responding sooner and appropriately"
It should surprise nobody that this tool holds Shemale Vicky Tripponey in high regard
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_f8f781d9-e81a-51ce-9cb4-7cbef75edfa0.html?mode=jqm
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_f8f781d9-e81a-51ce-9cb4-7cbef75edfa0.html?mode=jqm
The NCAA has had six executive director/presidents. None of them were named Joe Crowley. Don't know Swisher, but Bob Barney is a blithering idiot. Guess that happens when events render one's life work entirely obsolete.
Gee, I wonder how much this unscrupulous douche is making off of publishing this self-serving BS and fantasy? Funny how it's all Paterno's fault when it was the Executive Committee of the BOT who saw to it that their buddy Jerry was protected in the 1998 Internal Investigation (Headed by PSU's most senior detective, Ron Schreffler, who clearly felt Sandusky was guilty as he forwarded a request for indictment to DA Gricar!). Weird how Sandusky was not only protected by the All-Powerful EC of the BOT, but they then cut him a sweetheart retirement deal (including Rod Erickson, provost at the time, signing a waiver to allow Sandusky to receive "Emeritus Status" despite not qualifying for it), provided unlimited campus access for his personal fraudulent charity which enabled the conditions which led to 2001, etc... BTW, the EC of the BOT did all of this despite Paterno clearly expressing his disagreement with all of it. Oh yea, then in the Spring 2002, the same "friend of Jerry" EC of the BOT effectively gave Sandusky 15 acres of campus land to build his "dream hunting grounds" for his fraudulent pedophile charity (e.g., a "Campus Facility" for his personal fraudulent charity, The Second Mile) -- they granted Sandusky the 15 acres of land, and wrote about Sandusky in glowing terms in the official EC of the BOT Press Release, only a couple months after the internal investigation in 2001 that led to Sandusky being SANCTIONED by the University and having his rights to have his charity on campus REVOKED! And they gave him 15 acres to go build a private hunting grounds to take the kids to and spoke about Sandusky in glowing terms in the Press Release???
Gee, why does Mr. Corrupt Academic Smith not mention any of this but instead claims it's "the football coaches fault"???? What a disgraceful, corrupt a$$hole this Professor Smith characer sounds like.
Don't forget about PSUs Academic "College of Health and Human Services" eitherr which maintained a very close relationship with The Second Mile, CYS and the State-Level DPW. In fact, Sandusky gave the Commencement Speech for this College in, I believe, 2010 (although it may have been 2011, but he absolutely was INVITED to give the Commencement Speech for this College after he was found guilty by DPW and "indicated" in the Spring 2009 and put under Investigation by the OAG via a SWIGJ in mid-2009!). Weird how Mr. Academic Smith doesn't mention why a College of the University dedicated to "Family Psychology and Well-Being" is inviting criminal Sandusky to do Commencements for them and promoting Sandusky as well as his fraudulent pedophile factory charity a full year after it was made known to The Second Mile and Sandusky that he was under investigation by the PA OAG via a SWIGJ for CSA and child predation?!?! Gee, I wonder why corrupt unscrupulous academic Smith doesn't mention any of this or that the Provost of the University, the highest ranking Academic Officer at the University, signed of on waivers that enabled Sandusky to be given "Emeritus Status" despite the fact he didn't qualify for it!!!!
Cruising Route 66
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Crowley served as NCAA president from '93 - '95.
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/1995/19950104.pdf
I hope the book goes into detail as to how the alumni were culpable for everything, as opposed to the members of the board, w/r/t this...
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/jerry-sandusky/article42809127.html
“In general, there are people who love Joe and always will, and people who dislike him and always will,” McCombie said of the late football coach.
He credited Paterno with building the university.
“There’s enough blame in this thing to go around,” he said. “I would also include the ALUMNI. They were also asleep ... Everything was muddling along quite well, thank you.”
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I would hope that any book written about this case would, for the sake of human decency, detail actions we can take as ALUMNI to avoid future incidents. Read the minds of criminals we've never met?
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/jerry-sandusky/article42809127.html
“In general, there are people who love Joe and always will, and people who dislike him and always will,” McCombie said of the late football coach.
He credited Paterno with building the university.
“There’s enough blame in this thing to go around,” he said. “I would also include the ALUMNI. They were also asleep ... Everything was muddling along quite well, thank you.”
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I would hope that any book written about this case would, for the sake of human decency, detail actions we can take as ALUMNI to avoid future incidents. Read the minds of criminals we've never met?
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Only to the extent that your buddy Ed Ray was "President" of the NCAA. I'm sure a smart guy like you can figure that out.
Does smart alum 66 wear McCombie's accusation?
I assume he does not, nor do I. Yet this is the position of the governance. There can be no surprise if the AD donations are down, nor can there be any shock if any other factions' donations are down. The donors are being lambasted as disinterested pedophile enablers. Why?
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Cruising Route 66
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Exactly, Spanier held the position as well (in fact, immediately prior to Ray I believe). But the position the y held was Chair of the Executive Committee of NCAA I'm pretty sure, not "President". Technically, there have only been 5 Presidents because the title that Walter Byers served under was Executive Director and changed in 1988 with his successor, Dick Schultz (1988-1993). The others who have held the title are Cedric Dempsey (1994-2002), Myles Brand (2003-2009), Jim Isch - Interem (2009-2010) and the current horses @as Mark Emmert (2011- present).
Ronald A. Smith is an idiot and seems to have it in for JVP and the University as a whole.
