These would be more appropriate to show support for JoePa.
Posted on 11/11/2011 5:50:57 AM PST by servo1969
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary will miss Saturday's game against Nebraska after the school said he received "multiple threats."
McQueary testified in a grand jury investigation that eventually led to child sex-abuse charges being filed against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. The ensuing scandal brought down longtime coach Joe Paterno, who was fired by the university on Wednesday amid growing criticism that he should have done more to stop the alleged abuse.
McQueary, who testified that he saw Sandusky sodomizing a boy in the shower, encountered similar scrutiny. The university's athletic department released a one-line statement Thursday night saying it would be "in the best interest of all" if the receivers coach didn't attend the season's final home game at Beaver Stadium.
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I suppose I could MAYBE understand McQueary’s shock when seeing what may as well have been his father in this position. Between the shock and the docile victim (no one has said he was crying “help”), I may forgive him for failing to immediately intervene.
However, after 10 minutes of reflection passes, and the shock wears off, he could have still called the cops. He knew this about Sandusky and watched him parade on the campus with little boys for 9 more years and said nothing. That’s what disgusts me the most.
So, are the threats for him still having a job and Paterno being fired, or for his acting as a chickenshit and not stopping the homosexual rape of a child AND keeping his mouth shut about it for years afterward?
Exactly...I could understand that stumbling onto something like that, so horrid, at that moment, you may not even believe what you are seeing, and the brain can't deal with it. It's easy to say from the comfort of our keyboards that we would have done the right thing right there.....so that's not the problem I have with McQueary. It's the fact that after that, he had all of that time to do something about it, and didn't.
Lou Holts please pick up the courtesy phone.
I agree with you, either that or cancel the rest of the season. If JoePa needs to go then everyone in the entire athletic department should go.
I am curiously just what exactly McQueary told Paterno. I would bet anything McQueary did not tell him all the details.
I disagree. It’s one thing to not chastise j-walkers, it’s another to see an adult man sodomizing a youth, and walk away. The degree of wrongness in this case is so extreme, that inaction is a sign of severe moral weakness. Between j-walking and rape, there are an infinite number of situations, with unknown reactions, but child rape should not be allowed as one of them; 15 items in a 14 item lane, not so much.
True. But we have minimal standards of behaviour. If you see what he saw and don't call 911, you are a moral coward and deserve criticism.
You are getting your info from the tabloid press. Joe Paterno retired (fired) the guy in 1999 when he FIRST learned of inappropriate behavior. University policy allowed him continued the use of the A.D. I waiting for more info before jumping to judgement on Paterno. Everyone else is looking pretty bad thou.
These would be more appropriate to show support for JoePa.
NOBODY knows what they would do in a given situation until they find themselves in such a situation.
“True. But we have minimal standards of behaviour. If you see what he saw and don’t call 911, you are a moral coward and deserve criticism.”
Not directed specifically at you, jpsb...just adding onto the thread.
Just heard on my local radio...that police from across the Commonwealth will be ‘working’ Saturday’s game. An ‘iverwhelming police presence will be in force.
How about, NO game instead. No rest of season. No Bowl game. NCAA ruling and (hopefully) program “Death Penalty.”
I’ve heard students at the game are going to walk out en masse during the game to protest Paterno’s firing.
McQuearly, who graduated in 1998, was Paterno’s starting quarterback. Athletic Director Curley grew up in State College, played for Paterno, then his graduate assistent, then one of his coaches, then Asst. AD, then AD. Their association began in the 70’s. The idea that Paterno reported the 2002 incident to “his superior” Curley, thus absolving him of any further interest and responsibility, is absurd.
I’d love to see a venn diagram showing all the connections between Paterno and the major characters in this tragedy. Even the prosecutor is suspect imo, because she waited to post the grand jury report until after JoePa got his winningest coach prize, knowing the outrage and possible firing it would elicit.
After all, what JoePa had just been told was only a "vague" description of "horseplay" or something like that.
ESPN won’t let them, they’re high-fiving each other because they know this game is probably going to get boffo ratings.
The fact a man and a boy were alone in the shower, period, should have been enough.
I feel sorry for the players, but I agree, hard to imagine Penn State getting a bowl invite. No next year for sure, next year should be spent cleaning up the mess, and it is not just the football program it is the entire athletic department. Maybe the entire university.
Paterno was only given “a vague description of horseplay”? Then why did the 55 yr old Sandusky suddenly decide to “retire” in 1999, a few months after the “horseplay” investigation concluded, when before the investigation he was widely perceived as Paterno’s heir-apparent?
And he knew this predator was still around, involved in an organization with kids.
Anyone with a brain; would know the predator would be most likely be abusing other kids.
I think he is one of the bigger villains here; based on the information we have on this at this point.
ESPN, the NCAA, the sponsors, and quite frankly, even Nebraska, all NEED to look at the big picture. What kind of message does it send to go on with the game? the game is the end all and be all...everything else is secondary. IMO, wrong...
There are going to be angry mobs waiting for them in Columbus and Madison if they go through with those games.
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