[NU Sports] McQueary remains on staff

[Stephen Truog]

Good point - I can understand that. Also a good point that mc query may have whistleblower protection. 

In any case, bigger fish to fry and I do mean dry when it comes to spaniel and Sandusky.

STEPHEN J. TRUOG
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On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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>> ________________________________
>> 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,
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>> 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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