Actually that's a misnomer, in and of itself: According to all the inside accounts, including what Tom Bradley's closest friends said, Sandusky had literally checked out of doing actual coaching in favor of his "work" at his foundation as early as 1997. That would surely also help to explain how his defenses couldn't stop Minnesota, Purdue, Michigan, and Michigan State while starting 7 drafted NFL players and literally the first two defensive players in the 2000 NFL draft.I would have preferred a different wording for your ending clause "Sandusky used him well" but it is difficult to write that name without somehow creating the risk of a double entendre.
I have always maintained that if Joe simply would have fired him when the first talking was heard, we would have won another championship in 1999 or 1997.