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‘The review indicated former Cal U. President Angelo Armenti Jr. had “controlled the operations of the athletic program, especially football.”‘

A (cough) remarkably strong commitment to athletics has drawn the attention of the world to Penn State University; but the same public university system (Correction: Not the same. UD thanks a reader for pointing this out.) boasts another campus – California University of Pennsylvania (motto: Building Character) – whose long-term president (they finally dumped him after two decades, and in response he’s suing) took over that school’s football program.

Just that one guy ran the operation … And that guy was president of the whole dealie… And he turned the team into one of the winningest criminal conspiracies this side of Palermo.

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Not long ago, six of the lads got together and shouted Football Strong! after they beat some guy almost to death.

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You get a sense of the ex-president’s mentality when you read that he called the cancellation of a recent game – it seemed an appropriate gesture, given the fallout from the Football Strong! incident, and given the revelation that in the last two years not thirty, not forty, but forty-three players were in trouble with the law – “tragic.”

Margaret Soltan, February 4, 2015 2:02AM
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2 Responses to “‘The review indicated former Cal U. President Angelo Armenti Jr. had “controlled the operations of the athletic program, especially football.”‘”

  1. anon Says:

    Penn State and Cal aren’t part of the same system.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    anon: Thanks for that clarification. Cal is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.

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