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Here is a highly-entertaining thread (already over 100 posts in less than six hours) in which the Cult rants about hated Harrisburg Patriot-News columnist Dave Jones naming the four people most responsible for Penn St. football surviving the sanctions. Jones' choices: Rodney Erickson, Bill O'Brien, George Mitchell and Jim Delany. Naturally, the Cult is enraged at the choices of Erickson and Delany in particular and the exclusion of Michael Mauti.
http://bwi.forums.rivals.com/thread...for-the-survival-of-psu-fb-any-guesses.25479/
In reading the article, David Jones doesn't really credit Jim Delany. Delany is only mentioned once in a tangential fashion --- the 3 people are really only Erickson, O'Brien and Mitchell.
FWIW, I do think Michael Mauti (who some people here don't like, fair enough) should be on that list. I think Emmert was too worried about possible legal implications to invoke an actual death penalty, so he tried to do it indirectly with the combination of the long Bowl ban and free transfer rights.
If 25 or more players had left Penn State in August 2012, then it would have REALLY been all over for Penn State football.
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