Longtime Penn State trustee Alvin Clemens has released a statement calling for Penn State to reexamine the findings in the Freeh report. Trustee Clemens spoke up at the last board meeting in favor of Joe Paterno, and has served on the Board of Trustees since 1995.
Nike co-founder Phil Knight -- who had a close relationship with Joe Paterno as a result of Nike's coach retreats -- has reversed course today on his opinion following yesterday's release of a Paterno family critique of the Freeh Report, admitting that he had not read the report in full before releasing a statement condemning Paterno this past summer.
But to be serious, Wick Sollers, the Paterno family lawyer, issued the follow statement on Louis Freeh's response to the Paterno investigative report unveiled today. Sollers addresses the contradictory claim that Freeh made about Paterno refusing to be interviewed, which we pointed out earlier. The statement can be found below in full:
As I delved into the Paterno family report today and Louis Freeh's subsequent statement, I couldn't help but notice an alarming discrepancy and one that could mean a lot about the personalities we're dealing with here.
This morning, a critique of the Freeh report made landfall. Commissioned by the Paterno family and conducted by a Washington law firm, King & Spalding, the report offered a harsh rebuttal to the claims made in the Freeh report.
Louis Freeh has issued a response to the independent report released by the Paterno family, standing by his investigation conducted this summer. The Paterno report is highly critical of Freeh's investigation and the conclusions he reached about Joe Paterno in the Freeh report.