For as long as Tom Bradley worked at West Virginia, there was a question. Call it the question, and it followed him, never mind the two years he spent away from football, because of his long and storied career at Penn State.

Did he know?

Bradley, when he was here, was quiet about all of it. He didn’t want to go too deeply into his past. To my knowledge, he was never asked the question. I was in the horde once when someone tiptoed toward it — not at it — and Bradley saw it coming and politely evaded.

The mass conversation continued, and Bradley was a treat for as long as he was on the staff.

In truth, Oliver Luck did a lot of the work on Bradley’s behalf, telling anyone who asked or who would listen that he’d done his research before he and Dana Holgorsen made the call to hire Bradley for his first job after scandal rocked Penn State. Again and again, Luck said Bradley’s name was never in the Freeh Report, so, if you were asking or if you were wondering, what could he have known?

I don’t know. To me, that was sufficient. Bradley’s position was understandable. The passing of time and development of a relationship was fine by me. This wasn’t some unsettled subject that bugged me when he was on my beat. Others may feel differently. I just never knew what was going to come from an inquisition, aggressive, persistent, patient or otherwise.

And then Bradley moved on, taking a job that put him in charge of a defense at a major program after working just one season and getting his name back in the business with the Mountaineers.

There were no losers there.

But now Bradley, the defensive coordinator at UCLA, is back in the news after court documents were unsealed Tuesday.

The testimony comes from former assistant coach Mike McQueary, who said he witnessed Sandusky engaging in a sexual act with a minor in a Penn State shower in 2001, and raised the matter with former defensive coordinator Tom Bradley.

According to the court documents, Bradley, now the coordinator at UCLA, told McQueary that “another assistant coach had come to him in the early ’90s about a very similar situation” as had another individual “as far back as the early ‘80s about seeing (Sandusky) doing something with a boy.”

McQueary testified that Bradley said the assistant coach from the 1990s was Schiano, a Penn State assistant from 1990-95.

“I can’t remember if it was one night or one morning,” McQueary testified, “but that Greg had come into (Bradley’s) office white as a ghost and said he just saw (Sandusky) doing something to a boy in the shower.”

It doesn’t definitively prove or answer anything, but it made Bradley come forward to address the assertion he was aware.

Ex-PSU DC (currrent UCLA DC) Tom Bradley's statement: pic.twitter.com/0c0ZATTmt8

— Paul Myerberg (@PaulMyerberg) July 12, 2016