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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 4345244, member: 153"] It has been written about in Pennsylvania newspapers, but I heard it from the President of PSU. There was never a formal invite, but the 3 of them knew that Paterno was trying to put together an all football conference and he had some of the football schools in his pocket including Maryland and Rutgers. The 3 of them brought Paterno in to discuss PSU joining. I bet it was Crouthamel who understood that PSU was a block to creating the BE and needed to be brought in so that Rutgers and BC could join. In the PA newspapers in which this was recounted, the story was about Paterno regretting that he pushed for all football instead of all sports. Paterno thinks this was his mistake in '77 and '78. He thinks he would have had all these schools in an all sports conference if he had only offered them that with revenue sharing. This is the backdrop. The key player was Syracuse because Syracuse was more intimately knowledgeable about Rutgers and BC and what they thought of their football programs relative to PSU. [/QUOTE]