[Husker] What about McQuery?

[Tim Silvey]

Finally a logical response to what MM should have done! The people that think MM did nothing wrong disgust me. I am glad they are not in the military defending our freedom.


"Not the victory but the action.
  Not the goal but the game.
   In the deed the glory."


--- On Tue, 7/17/12, James Moreau <mohskr at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: James Moreau <mohskr at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Husker] What about McQuery?
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 8:48 PM
> This whole thing still makes me
> sick.  I know that when this incident came out during
> the season, my brother and I had a conversation with his
> son, who was a starting WR for his HS football team, what
> his coach would have done if his coach had witnessed someone
> interacting with a kid in the showers that appeared sexual
> in nature.  His son said that his coach made the
> comment that he would have pulled the old man off of the boy
> and the old man would have "slipped" multiple times in the
> shower, perhaps falling on his head a few dozen times as he
> tried to get up, and might have ended up drowning after
> "slipping" that many times.  
> 
> Both my brother and I thought the same thing.  Here you
> have a young grad assistant that was a pretty athletic
> looking kid, witnessing an old man (Jerry), sexually
> assaulting an underage kid and you don't go in and physical
> assist the young boy?  Seems to me, I don't care if it
> would have cost me my job in that case, JS would have been
> beaten pretty badly.  Am I advocating assault, in that
> case, yes.  Used to be we took care of people like that
> and now people are too worried about how they'd be perceived
> or someone suing them.
> 
> I'm glad that my nephew's coach would have done what myself
> and my brother would have done if we were in the position of
> McQuery.
> 
> James Moreau
> 
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