Penn St. Nittany Lions assistant coach Mike McQueary, the former graduate assistant who told Joe Paterno in 2002 about seeing Jerry Sandusky molest a young boy in Penn State's locker room, might not make it to the sideline on Saturday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ron Musselman.
@rmusselmanppg I am told that Penn State wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator Mike McQueary is uncertain if he will coach Saturday.
McQueary wasn't at practice on Tuesday, with Chris Fowler reporting he'd been declared to be on a recruiting trip. That's not all that easy to believe, since there's no way he could effectively convince anyone to play for Penn State with this going on. "On leave" would probably be a more accurate way to put it, but I guess you never know.
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He's uncertain what to do, huh?
His course of action seems obvious to me, but maybe he should call his dad for advice before doing anything.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Nov 9, 2011 3:12 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
So what if he called his father?
He needed someone he could trust with that terrible information, they eventually reported it to Paterno and Curley. You’re an idiot.
by RossingtonCollins on Nov 9, 2011 3:20 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously?
As a 28 year old man you see a ten year old boy being sodomized in a college locker room shower late at night and you need your father to tell you to “eventually” report it to your bosses. Nothing else come to mind, like maybe helping the kid, calling 911? Nothing?
You know, we send 18-20 year old young men off to foreign lands to fight war and kill people on our behalf. If you, at 28, don’t have the moral compass or fortitude that tells you what to do in such a circumstance, or at any point in the succeeding decade, you’re never going to acquire it.
You’re free to go around calling people idiots, but I’d take a long hard look at the mirror first.
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by gamedaytribe on Nov 9, 2011 3:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
dude
He saw a kid being raped, and did nothing. The only way his first phone call should be his father, is if his father’s a cop. I know you people wanna defend Penn State, but you should really just shut up. And let everybody get their outrage out. If you wanna be an apologist, take it to BSD and go in peace.
by Mark Mandingo on Nov 9, 2011 3:47 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You know who McQueary could trust with that terrible information?
The police.
Too bad the kid couldn’t trust McQueary to do the right thing with that terrible information.
The chain of command for reporting a crime does not include one’s father, coach, or athletic director. It starts and ends with 9-1-1.
But yeah, I’m the idiot.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Nov 9, 2011 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
Bias is a powerful thing
We all have it. Look at any ESPN poll, and the regional biases are glaring when it comes to which team is better, etc. It can even affect our moral compass. People will firmly believe that a politician’s mistake (sexual harassment, lying, conflicts of interest, etc.) is no big deal when they support the politician at issue, but then decide a nearly identical mistake is the gravest error ever when they voted for the other guy.
Bias is harmless, even encouraged, when it comes to sports: I still believe Auburn has a chance to beat Bama, and that stupidity on my part is part of what makes it fun. But when it comes to moral issues, it’s a good idea to take a step back if you have a huge bias towards supporting a person/institution. If nearly everyone else (not just those you suspect of the opposite bias, but neutral parties and even those that are inclined to support you) disagrees with your judgment, you’ve probably been blinded by your loyalty.
That may well have happened to McQueary and Paterno in this case. It’s too bad they didn’t consult a trusted priest/pastor, because he may have recommended a different course of action and saved everyone a lot of pain.
by Ardbeg on Nov 9, 2011 5:58 PM EST up reply actions
This is how PSU fans come away looking like assholes.
by Squidbones on Nov 9, 2011 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
call me crazy...
i have this thing were i am really against 60 year old men raping young boys in the ass. This must be really strange to you but based on my “craziness”, if i came across a kid getting raped in the shower, i’d, you know, do something to stop it. Perhaps the previous poster had the same affliction as myself. We just assume everybody finds kids getting raped as appalling as us. Of course its normal for somebody to do nothing to stop it and just run away and call their father. His father is totally normal too, for thinking nothing of it, advising his son to leave the school immediately (you know, in case heaven forbid he interrupt any more old men raping young boys) and report it to the old ball coach. Its a good thing that Joe used the information to stop Sandusky from raping any more boys, oh wait… I suppose that people like RossingtonCollins and McQueary Jr. and Sr and old Joe Paterno himself are the normal ones who are unphased by kids getting raped up the ass and its the rest of us who are crazy and i guess even idiots.
"What's so special about Lou Gehrig? Shouldn't EVERY Yankee have a disease named after him? "
by Sean Coleman on Nov 9, 2011 8:21 PM EST up reply actions
Really Really?
A 28 year old ex football player see’s and OLD PERVERT sodomizing a 10 year old and his first thought was he had better tell Joe Pa about this! Really? Any normal MAN would have not only stopped this kid from being raped but would have and should have put a hurt on this OLD PERVERT so that he could have never hurt another child. This guy should join Sandusky in the same cell.
by LarryLive on Nov 9, 2011 7:34 PM EST reply actions
You don’t think he saw Sandusky with little kids around campus after this incident? Sandusky was still using the gym at the school. McQueary told Joe Paterno, saw that nothing was done and no action was taken and then sat back while Sandusky the monster raped and fondled more then a dozen kids over a 12 year period. Doesn’t stop children from being raped when encountering it and allows the rapist to go scott-free for over a decade secure in the knowledge that he told Joe Paterno of what happened so can simply wash his hands of the entire ordeal and i suppose knock loudly before entering a locker room that Sandusky is in. That’s some quality human beings they have at Penn State.
"What's so special about Lou Gehrig? Shouldn't EVERY Yankee have a disease named after him? "
by Sean Coleman on Nov 9, 2011 8:27 PM EST up reply actions
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