Former Bucs coach Greg Schiano sells former Tampa home for near-record $6.6 million
By Susan Taylor Martin
Tampa Bay Times
Published: Jul 13, 2016

TAMPA - Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano has sold his Culbreath Isles home for $6.625 million, the second biggest residential sale ever in Hillsborough County.

Schiano and his wife, Christina, built the 10,850 square-foot mansion in 2013, the same year the Bucs fired him and general manger Mark Dominik after a 7-9 season.

The buyer was a land trust with Tampa attorney Robert S. Walton as trustee.

The all-cash deal, which closed last week, is second only to the $6.75 million sale five years ago of a Bayshore Boulevard mansion. Several bay area homes have topped $5 million this year, including a penthouse in downtown St. Petersburg that sold for $6.9 million, the record for a bay area condo.

The area's priciest sale was $10.25 million in 2001 for a Belleair mansion on a bluff overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway.

The Schianos' former home, on a quarter-acre lot fronting Culbreath Bayou, has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and two half-baths. Amenities include an elevator, pool, spa, boat lift, butler's pantry and wine cellar.

In 2012, the Bucs gave Schiano, then head coach at Rutgers, a reported five-year, $15 million contract to lead the team, although he had no head coaching experience at the professional level. In December, he returned to college football as defensive coordinator and associate head coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

While an assistant at Penn State in the 1990s, Schiano knew that Jerry Sandusky was abusing young boys when he witnessed such an act in a shower, according to testimony unsealed by a Philadelphia court Tuesday.

The allegations appear in a deposition by former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary, who was the chief witness in the Sandusky investigation. McQueary said Tom Bradley, then defensive coordinator at Penn State, told him that another coach, Schiano, had come to him "as white as a ghost'' with similar information in the early 1990s.

Schiano tweeted Tuesday that he "never saw any abuse, nor had reason to suspect any abuse, during my time at Penn State.”

Sandusky, the program's longtime defensive coordinator, was convicted on 45 counts of child sexual abuse and sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in 2012.

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