Q:If Paterno and the program was as squeaky clean and dignified as the public perceives:
A: "Well Mike, three things stick out in my mind from my experience from what I can remember, it was a long time ago. One is I grew up in a mixed neighborhood in New Jersey, and my first friend was African American, and I was in a staff meeting one time and we were having some problems at quarterback with Kisner, and someone recommended what about Darren Roberts? He was an All State quarterback from New Jersey. And Coach just said we're not ready for a black quarterback. And we had Ron Dickerson in the room who was an assistant, and he just went ballistic which I always thought was pretty cool that he stood up to Joe. But Randall Cunningham was the starting quarterback at the time for the Eagles. But Darren never got a chance for us; I don't know why, but that was stated in the room. So clearly that's one incident where if any manager in corporate America said that, they'd be gone the next day. Another time, just the academic adviser coming over shaking his head and saying ‘it's happening again.' Coach would pull guys and make sure they were going to practice rather than going to class and he'd say ‘he can't take that class, it's during practice.' So pretty much all the stuff that they projected was controlled spin."
