"People talked about Steve's realitydistortionfield as a joke but at the same time time he gives you the impression that everything he says is core to his belief about the world, " he said.
It cited Penn State's "excessive focus on athletics" and showed how under Paterno, a football-mad university created its own insular, realitydistortionfield, one in which to "avoid the consequences of bad publicity, " facts were brushed away and concealed.