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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4345082, member: 153"] This is absolutely no mystery among PSU fans, but I know it from a person who THERE when it happened. And I've know about this since I sat across from this person (not Paterno himself) at a dinner in 1992. Before Gavitt, G'town and Syracuse ever got together, Paterno had already laid the groundwork for an all football conference in 1977. This is totally different than the all sports conference he was trying to organize in 1981. One of the first calls Crouthamel placed was to Paterno and PSU (he actually went to the AD at the time who was not really up on things, and he passed it to the pres.). The whole idea behind bringing PSU in was that Paterno had the head start on creating a conference and they wanted to bring him in. They very well knew he had sway with schools like BC and Rutgers. This isn't even a mystery. And Paterno is on record as saying he screwed this initial attempt up because he didn't read the tea leaves correctly by focusing on a football only conference. [/QUOTE]