[NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff

Thu Nov 10 17:42:36 CST 2011

On the money angle:

- As mentioned earlier, one lawyer said liability could be $100M+.
- The board of trustees already mentioned that there will likely be some
sort of buyout involved regarding Spanier's contract.
- One prominent sponsor has already pulled: Sherwin Williams (look at the
press conference backdrop before and after).

This will obviously be a huge setback to the program that will hang over
them for years, if not much longer.

--
Jonathan Hodges
Contributor, HailToPurple
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:27 PM, <hakirsch at aol.com> wrote:

> It will cost the University and the State (Commonwealth) a ton of money
>
> 1 Lawsuits from who knows how many will step and claim they were victims
>
> 2 Loss of sponsorship
>
> 3 Gate and royalty revenue (clothes etc)
> 4 TV
> 5 Joe Pa's ability to bring in alumni money out th
> e window
> 6 Recruiting and new coaching costs-  will have to pay huge to restart
> program
>
> I'm glad I'm not a PA taxpayer
>
> Harry
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: neonrye at aol.com
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> To: Michael Vance<michael.vance at att.net>; <nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>;
> Northwestern Wildcats<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Reply-To: neonrye at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
>
> Michael,
>
> Your analysis is spot on.  In today's NY TIMES there was big atricle about
> McQueary.  He harbored ambitions to succeed JoePa, but would joke that
> Paterno would outlive him.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net>
> Sender: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:58:14
> To: Northwestern Wildcats<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
>
> Stephen-
>
> My only problem with that is that he stuck around. If you are correct in
> your proposition that McQueary was simply too intimidated to say anything,
> he could have left the program any time in the last nine years. He could
> have told Paterno that he thought it was the right thing for his career to
> get some experience outside of the PSU system, gotten a letter of
> recommendation, and with that, gotten a job anywhere. But instead, he chose
> to stay among those who hid what he saw. Sorry, I don't have much sympathy
> for him.
>
> -Michael
> Sent from my mobile device...
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:40 PM, "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > McQueary is not innocent in all this like the players, so I won't defend
> him with the voracity I used against the absurd suggestion to give the
> student athletes on the team the "death penalty" ... BUT ...
> >
> > He's a grad assistant and sees a living legend on campus committing a
> crime - someone with powerful friends in high places and he is recognized
> as a witness. He reports it to an even bigger living legend on campus and
> never hears anything back.
> >
> > What is he to assume? Either JoePa didn't take it up the ladder or the
> people up the ladder rejected it -- in either case, the guy is being
> protected by someone at PSU and who is he? Just some graduate assistant. If
> he presses the issue, he can assume he will be fired, blacklisted or worse.
> >
> > It's something he'll have to live with and it's inexcusible, but he had
> to decide whether he wanted to accept what the powers that be had
> apparently decided or push the issue and become a whistleblower, which
> takes great risk and usually comes with attacks and questions of its own
> (just ask anyone who's brought up sexual misconduct charges against a
> powerful political figure, or an employee trying to expose corruption in
> corporate America).
> >
> > It's easy to say what we would do in his shoes - but hopefully we'll
> never have to be faced with that decision for real.
> >
> > In any case, he's not the person the media mob of madness should be
> swarming right now in their search for unquenchable headlines and justice.
> They need to be on the lawns of Spanier, Sandusky and the AD ... dig into
> the files of the university and local police, judges and district attorneys
> who knew of this ... heck, they should be looking into the board of
> trustees themselves and what type of environment they fostered and the type
> of people they hired (and why they said they were shocked).
> >
> > McQueary is not the iconic coach who had nothing to fear from blowing
> the whistle, nor the people in power who knew more and did less -- he's the
> low man on the totem poll who was too weak to follow up on a report of a
> crime (though he did at least report it, which a lot of witnesses do not
> even do) because he saw all of the people in power around him wanting to
> look the other way.
> >
> > Not a profile in courage to be sure, but also not someone I want to
> focus the spotlight on in the search for justice.
> >
> > - Stephen
> >
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> > STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> > sjtruog at yahoo.com
> > GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
> > Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Jim Leonard <jleonard518 at yahoo.com>
> > To: Northwestern Wildcats <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:46 PM
> > Subject: [NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff
> >
> > NU Friends,
> >
> > I am at a loss to understand how Mike McQueary remains on the payroll at
> Penn State. By his own sworn grand jury testimony he saw a young boy being
> abused. His only actions were to call his father and later tell Joe
> Paterno. For years after that he must have seen Sandusky on campus and bowl
> trips with more young children. I don't know how he can live with himself.
> >
> > A) He could have intervened in the shower room.
> > B) He could have pulled the fire alarm and then run to a phone.
> > C) He could have made an anonymous call to the police (his father could
> have too, what's wrong with that guy?)
> > D) He could have made follow-up inquiries to several different people.
> >
> > Since 1993 Penn State has been my second favorite Big Ten team. If they
> allow him to remain on the payroll and represent the school on Saturday,
> that is over.
> >
> > To be clear, my issue with him has NOTHING to do with the law or legal
> obligations. It had everything to do with being a person of clear
> conscience and good character. Sadly, I think the reason that he has been
> kept on staff is that if he is fired he's free to talk and he'll have A LOT
> more to say.
> >
> > Success with Honor - what a joke.
> >
> > Jim
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