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Jerry Sandusky Scandal
As many of my classmates have stated, according to the textbook, a crisis situation is any threat to a sport entity's image or reputation (pg. 268).

After reading through this section one situation that came to mind was all the issues at Penn State with Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky was convicted of multiple charges of sexual abuse during his time at the University and despite the University knowing that the scandal was going to take a turn for the worst, the decision was to stay quiet about it. The University stayed quiet for about eight months until they finally sought out help to get them out of the mess that was created by staying quiet. If anything a simple state addressing the issue and saying something about how this issue is important
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