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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob
It's absolutely stunning how so many assistant coaches can see something like this and all decide on their own not to report it.
Something stinks about it. I find it highly unlikely that everybody could outright ignore this for so long without some kind of implied agreement to not report Jerry and to keep this whole thing hush-hush. JoePa appears to have formed a culture around not reporting on Sandusky and letting him do his thing so long as he didn't tell any of them about it.
Pretty much. Anyone who's reasonably intelligent figures out pretty quick there are unwritten rules at their place of employment. Carefully worded messages go out. Bosses are really good at cutting you off/changing the subject when it's something they don't want to talk about. Emails go unanswered. Etc.
I can't count the number of times at my job my bosses have communicated something like "do what you have to do but I don't want to know about it".
Add on top of that the pressure/reward of working for a major football powerhouse, then add on top of that the cult of Penn St. I can imagine a lot of lower-level employees would get the message in a very powerful way to just shut the hell up.