[NU Sports] The silence is deafening

[juliepmcfarland]

If employers are smart, they will stay far far away from him. I would never let my child play for someone who cannot stand up, and frankly, physically try to stop such an egregious crime.

Julie Goldmann
WCAS '95



On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:26 PM, "Peter C. Warner" <pcw at warnerpatents.com> wrote:

> We've heard what JoePa told the grand jury.
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> We've heard what JoePa says he was told by McQueary.
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> We've heard what McQueary told the grand jury.
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> But, we (at least I) haven't heard what McQueary says he told JoePa.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Anyway:
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> McCreary is in a tough spot and has some tough choices to make.  
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> (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.)
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