Now let’s get things out in the open right from the get go. I hail from Central Pennsylvania. I am 28 years old (same again as Mike McQueary was in 2002, keep that in mind). I did not go to Penn State, yet support them as the local team. And, at the forefront, the real tradegy in this is the victims, however many their turns out to be. Many a person dropped the ball on different aspects of this and it sadly is going to effect the victims for the rest of their lives. One man saw it, and for some reason still has his job.
Mike McQueary was then a graduate assistant with the Nittany Lions in 2002. As of testimony in the Grand Jury report, he walked in and SAW Jerry Sandusky. His own two eyes. My question is, as a 28 year old man, you see a man old enough to be your grandfather in the shower with a boy young enough to be your son, why did you not call the police that instant? Stop him. Something other than turn around, walk away, and call your dad. You are a grown man, call the police.
But now, nearly ten years later, as we sit here approaching our first visit from the University of Nebraska as a member of the Big Ten, there is a Penn State that hasn’t been seen in 61 years. There won’t be those thick rimmed glasses in Beaver Stadium. The Board of Trustee’s decision made their decision on the legendary coach, and possibly started the Tom Bradley era in Happy Valley. Yet, what I don’t understand, is how Mike McQueary still on the coaching staff? They are treating him as if he was a teenage boy who walked in on something he shouldn’t have. He was a 28 year old man. This falls on him more so than anyone outside of the disgusting Jerry Sandusky. What makes Mike McQueary so special? More special than Joe Paterno? (I went as long as I could).
Why haven’t we heard any sort of quote or statement out of the McQueary camp? McQueary seemingly is always left out when this discussed in the media, and someone who still remains on the coaching staff. How does this seem fair? Joe Paterno was informed of the alleged incidents by McQueary, then he told his boss, Tim Curley, and the head of University police, Gary Schultz. Out of all those men, only Joe Paterno has been fired. How does that make any sense? If you take action upon one of any of the men who knew, then you must take the same action to all.
It makes it more sad that the only one who fired gave more back to youth and the advancement of lives than a hundred men could give back in a hundred lifetimes. Take a bow Board of Trustee’s.