Posnanski and the Paterno book

My big question is when Paterno found out about Sandusky.

Before Sandusky went to interview in 1996 for the Virginia and Maryland jobs?

Before Joe kept turning down the Patriots in the early and late 1970s?

Did Virginia or Maryland find something out during a background check?

 

The line in that story I find genuinely mindboggling is:

"The book's publication date was moved up, from Father's Day 2013 to late summer, forcing Posnanski to adapt a hagiography on the fly to fit emerging details that were at odds with his thesis."

This is a case where the publisher should have moved the deadline back, not forward. Think about all the degrees of difficulty that have been layered on Posnanski—first this horrific and complicated image-changing event arises, and then his deadline is actually shortened by months, rather than lengthened as it should have been.





It's very strange.

 

That and the promotions seeming horribly dated...

Who's steering the ship at S & S? Do they just not care?

 

All of this is damning, sure. But none of it is surprising.

Does anyone want anything to do with Paterno or this book at this point?

Does anybody think Posnanski doesn't wish he'd never gotten involved in this project?

What a horrible, convoluted mess.

This is a sports writer already having his story written, and then having the game and results change 180 degrees in the last two minutes...multiplied by about a million times in terms of worse-ness.

 

SI passing just cannot be a good sign, here.

 

Granted, but we have no idea how acrimonious his separation from the magazine was, either.

 

Couldn't it mean that they're working on their own Penn State story?

 

Great point. One I hadn't thought of until you mentioned it.
VERY much plausible.

 

My first thought is that the deadline is being moved back so they can make money off of it while its still hot in the public's mind.

 

How much did Posnanski get? If they can get 100,000 of the Kool-Aid drinkers to buy copies, they should be able to break even, which has to be the goal here.

 

John Bacon's book on Michigan and Rich Rodriguez, Three and Out. Rodriguez gave him total access and ended up not really speaking to him after reading the book.

 

A lot of people, regardless of whether they bleed Nittany blue, will buy it.