If he had nothing to report, why type the words we could be vulnerable for not reporting this? Even more so if he knew people were out to get him, a simply CYA was in his best interest in addition to the University was my only real point. I think they mentioned exactly who they would report it to so that isn't a mystery. They at least had an idea and can we stop pretending these men were idiots. It's bad enough people paint Jerry out to be a simple country bumpkin who didn't know better...but these were some people pretty far up the latter in the administration.
People can talk all day long about the jealousy or the politician's that hated him, but he himself knew it could be an issue and did voice a concern over it. Now I don't think he thought it was going to be to this extent at all, nor do I think it was done with any malice at all. Actually I think their relationships with Jerry clouded their thought process and Jerry kind of counted on that from people....it's what he did best. People can act like this wasn't discussed and talk about TSM's absolute failures which were abundant, but somehow people here get upset if you mention that maybe Spanier and company didn't exactly do a great job either. They take personal offense to it and that is because some here knew them personally...so it's normal. I don't see any of them as bad people who tried to cover anything up, but more so....just didn't take that one extra step to make a phone call and document it. That is of course with hind site. IIRC they were also advised to make a call by their counsel...but
@JmmyW or
@rmb297 may debunk that. I'm not positive of that, nor do I have the cycles to spend looking it up.