A2: Advice for Penn State

Ann Arbor author John U. Bacon is interviewed for an item in the Inside the List column, to be published in the Nov. 20 New York Times Sunday Book Review. Bacon – whose recently released book “Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football” is on the Times bestseller list – was asked what advice he’d give Penn State in the wake of a child sexual abuse scandal with links to the athletic department there: “Confess, fire and punish – then begin a transition to a brand-new regime. Few schools have done this very well, partly because they don’t realize coaches are not interchangeable parts. Las Vegas weddings tend to end in Las Vegas divorces – just ask the once stable Michigan program.” [Source]