[NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
Dale Kipp
dale.kipp at matweb.com
Thu Nov 10 17:00:13 CST 2011
I've seen it suggested that McQueary is still on staff because he is
protected as a whistleblower.
What I find most distasteful in this week's official reaction to the
scandal is that Curley and Schultz are getting their legal fees paid,
and Paterno and Spanier got their severance packages upon firing. I
know that it is early in the process and these may be subject to change
and also that Penn State may have legal reasons to structure things this
way.
Looking back on earlier suggestions to kill PSU football...I say no.
You can't punish the institution as such because it always falls on the
stakeholders. In the case of Penn State, 99.999% of the stakeholders
are completely innocent. Innocent athletes who thought they were buying
into a clean program. The student body. Alums. Local businesses. I
expect that the taxpayers of PA will be getting stuck for a big bill
too.
As Peter mentioned earlier, the bill should be paid by the likes of
Curley, Schultz, Spanier, and others in positions of authority who knew
what was going on and yet covered things up. To truly be a deterrent to
other institutions these people need to be prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the law in criminal court, and then bankrupted in civil
claims.
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