The Jerry Sandusky child molestation case stunned the nation. As
subsequent revelations uncovered an athletic program operating free
of oversight, university officials faced criminal charges while
unprecedented NCAA sanctions hammered Penn State football and
blackened the reputation of coach Joe Paterno. In Wounded Lions,
acclaimed sport historian and longtime Penn State professor Ronald
A. Smith heavily draws from university archives to answer the How?
and Why? at the heart of the scandal. The Sandusky case was far
from the first example of illegal behavior related to the football
program or the university's attempts to suppress news of it. As
Smith shows, decades of infighting among administrators, alumni,
trustees, faculty, and coaches established policies intended to
protect the university, and the football team considered synonymous
with its name, at all costs. If the habits predated Paterno, they
also became sanctified during his tenure. Smith names names to show
how abuses of power warped the "Penn State Way" even with hires
like women's basketball coach Rene Portland, who allegedly
practiced sexual bias against players for decades. Smith also
details a system that concealed Sandusky's horrific acts just as
deftly as it whitewashed years of rules violations, coaching
malfeasance, and player crime while Paterno set records and raised
hundreds of millions of dollars for the university. A
myth-shattering account of misplaced priorities, Wounded Lions
charts the intertwined history of an elite university, its storied
sports program, and the worst scandal in collegiate athletic
history.
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