Report: Sandusky Recuited HS Players This Season for Penn State

[RamboLiberal]

(WSCR) According to a published report, former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who was arrested over the weekend on more than 40 counts of child sexual abuse, had been recruiting for Penn State football as recently as this past spring.

Adam Ah Ching, a senior linebacker at Greer High School in South Carolina, said that Sandusky actually visited him this past season as a recruiting ploy.

“He came to my last spring game going into my senior season. He liked how I moved, laterally, and how gifted I am,” said Ah Ching, ranked last year by ESPNU as the 26th linebacker prospect in the country.

Since the allegations surfaced, however, Ah Ching has changed his mind about Penn State.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/11/sandusky-recuited-hs-players-this-season/

[DURHAM D]

1. Another story at your link -

"Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was selected in 2007 to be the featured speaker at the commencement ceremony for Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development."

[tishaLA]

2. collegefootballtalk.com pretty much debunked this earlier this week

the kid's coach and athletic director both deny that Sandusky was ever there. The AP says Sandusky was at a camp for Polynesian players in the spring, which Ah Ching attended, and encouraged all the kids at the camp to attend PSU, but that seems to be the extent of their contact:

It should be noted that we can find no information that Ah Ching was being recruited, heavily or otherwise, by Penn State other than recruiting letters, with that information coming from the player himself. It should be further noted that there is no credible evidence whatsoever that any contact Sandusky may have had with Ah Ching came under the direction of the Nittany Lions football program.

Sandusky wrapping himself in the Penn State name, though, would not exactly qualify as a shocking development given his emeritus status at the university since leaving the football program in an an official capacity in the late nineties. http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/12/the-curious-case-of-a-2012-recruit-and-jerry-sandusky/">Collegefootballtalk

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think we have to balance what Ah Ching says with the denials from his coach and AD.

[MrsBrady]

3. personally, I would think any contact

that Sandusky had with ANY minor is suspect at this point.

And, in my opinion, he may have used Penn State as a 'lure' when talking with any minor
where it might be 'useful' to him.

That's how predators operate.