joining me now is legal analyst michael mccann. >> good morning, alex. >> give me the way you see ithave on college sports? >> i expecting this going to have a sweeping effect. i think the ncaa will make sure that's the case. this investigation by louis freeh and his associates showed a massive cover up at penn state, the fact a coach was so powerful he was able to help engineer a cover-up of some of the worst crimes imaginable. i really think it's necessary for other schools to take from this and realize that maybe internal investigations periodic chi are a good thing and ensuring that coaches don't become too powerful and people don't become afraid of speaking out against coaches. that was a major part of the story. >> this is something joe paterno's son described it, jay said very often people closest to someone like this are the ones that miss it. we aren't the only ones who missed it. everyone of us wishes we could have caught something about it. >> do you think this mentality of cover-up, is that going to change because of morality or honorable code or will it change because th

michael mccann is a legal analyst and columnist for "sports illustrated" and he joins me now.w at vermont law school. the paterno family issued a statement saying we are dismayed, vehemently disagree with some of the con lutions and the process by which they were developed. from freeh presented his opinions as if they were absolute facts. we believe it bears further review. when we talk about the freeh report and they were waiting for this to come out saying they would look at it and let the truth be what it is by what was found in this report. it also goes on to not shed a lot of light on what "the new york times" has now talked about, and this report about this deal that joe paterno was able to carve out while all of the sandusky stuff was imploding around him in the beginning of 2011. what is -- when we look at this and look back, hindsight being 20/20, what is the interpretation of how this all went down? >> well, thomas, i think it's pretty extraordinary. i think it shows that joe paterno was clearly the most powerful person at penn state. he was more powerful than the pr

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