[NU Sports] The silence is deafening

[Peter C. Warner]

We've heard what JoePa told the grand jury.

 

We've heard what JoePa says he was told by McQueary.

 

We've heard what McQueary told the grand jury.

 

But, we (at least I) haven't heard what McQueary says he told JoePa.

 

Based on McCreary's forthrightness with detail given to the grand jury (and
to his dad at the time), I suspect that McQueary told JoePa more detail than
JoePa admits.  If McQueary did, in fact, give JoePa a more limited version
of what happened, PSU would have been out with a statement from McQueary
earlier this week.

 

I assume that, even though the PSU board is try to slow things down with the
investigation committee, they have had their attorneys cross-examining
McQueary in person (recruiting trip? right) over the past few days to find
out his position and/or to horse-shed (scare) him into changing his story.
At this point, the delay in a statement from McQueary is, to me, very
damning.  Namely, the board already knows exactly what McQueary's position
presently is and is trying to buy time.

 

Anyway:

 

On the one hand, McQueary can toe the party line and say he didn't give
detail.  Some future potential employer might see valor in McQueary
protecting his boss and be willing to hire him at least in part because of
his loyalty.  (Or, a PSU alum wanting to minimize the damage may offer him a
job - probably outside of football.)  Others will reject him outright for
not saying enough (if JoePa is to believed) and too weak of a person to be
able to articulate to his boss what he saw (even though he was able to
articulate it just fine to his dad and the grand jury).  Others will reject
him because they just think he's lying to cover JoePa's tail.

 

On the other hand, McQueary could break with the party and contradict
JoePa's position that McQueary didn't give him details.  Some future
potential employer might hire him for having the guts to stand against
JoePa.  However, in that case, I suspect many more won't touch McQueary with
a ten-foot pole for fear that he could stand-up against them as well for
something that could arise in the new employment.  Others will reject him
because they just think he's lying to save his own tail - at least in part
(he still didn't immediately go to the cops).

 

McCreary is in a tough spot and has some tough choices to make.  

 

(Also, although somewhat inconsequential to this post, how did the
prosecutors find out about McCreary in the first place?  Did he come forward
on his own, or was his name given by PSU during the investigation?  We may
never know that.)