Back in April of 2011, former ESPN host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State’s child sex cover-up surrounding former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Despite Madden’s history of saying outlandish things over the air and through the press, Madden’s story on the child sex allegations at Penn State seem very credible at this point.
Thursday morning when Madden was asked on The Dennis and Callahan Show what he believes the next piece of news will be he touched on something that is far more troubling and shocking than anything that has been released so far (via NESN)…
“I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen,” Madden told John Dennis and Gerry Callahan. “I hear there’s a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation — and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can — that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak.”
After the news spread, Madden later explained via Twitter why he went public with the rumors.
“I normally abhor giving RUMORS credence,” Madden wrote. “But whole Sandusky scandal started out as a RUMOR. It gets deeper and more disgusting all the time. One of state’s top columnists investigating. That adds credence. I am NOT rumor’s original source. [Why does] Sandusky deserve benefit of doubt?”
Madden also spoke more definitively on Dennis and Callahan to the cover-up efforts at the school and beyond that he expects will be made public soon.
“The other thing I think that may eventually become uncovered, and I talked about this in my original article back in April, is that I think they’ll find out that Jerry Sandusky was told that he had to retire in exchange for a cover-up,” Madden said. “If you look at the timeline, that makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
“My opinion is when Sandusky quit, everybody knew — not just at Penn State,” Madden added. “I think it was a very poorly kept secret about college football in general, and that is why he never coached in college football again and retired at the relatively young age of 55. [That’s] young for a coach, certainly.”
These new statements given by Madden are obviously extremely more bizarre and disgusting and taken to an entirely different level than what we’ve seen so far. However, given what Madden revealed back in April and how credible that story ended up being, these latest statements from Madden cannot be discredited.
Now if what Madden is now saying turns out to be true, or even remotely true not only will the entire football program be gone but you’d have to figure that the entire University would be in serious danger of going under.
Ref: NESN, CBSNews.com (image)
