I still hold McQueary and his dad responsible, too. Apparently neither of them did any follow up.
And Bobby Bowden says they should remove the statue of Joe Paterno.
I agree with Coach Bowden. He took a lot of heat while at FSU ("Free Shoes University") and there may have been some sketchy things going on under his watch. But the worst of what he may have done or allowed while coaching the Seminoles isn't in the same league of the depraved criminal culture that existed at "Happy" Valley during the Paterno/Sandusky reign of terror.
When asked why he didn't retire from coaching, Joe Paterno famously remarked: "It would leave college football in the hands of the Jackie Sherrills and Barry Switzers". Well, Sherill's castration of a bull while at Mississippi State is pretty tame stuff indeed compared to the violence permitted by Paterno and his crew at Penn State.
Only because of the damage to his legacy, not because of what happened to those kids. I say Bobby's comments, and he still to a degree portrayed Paterno as a victim.
I don’t see why he hung around for 10 years unless he sold his silence for a job.
John McQueary, the father of Mike McQueary, contacted Gary Schultz a few months after the 2001 incident to check up on Mike's "Sandusky report" to Paterno.
I don't know what he was told; I don't know if he followed up again. However, John McQueary did follow up with somebody. Also remember that it wasn't John McQueary who was instrumental in deciding that Mike McQueary shouldn't contact the police, but Jonathan Dranov, M.D., whom John McQueary called over to the McQueary household that night for advice.
Dranov was the medical director of the clinic where John McQueary worked, and to which Joe and Sue Paterno had donated over $1 million.
Dranov testified for the defense in the Sandusky trial. He testified that he asked Mike three times whether he saw actual sexual penetration that night. All three times Mike broke down and couldn't answer the question - he'd start to tell the story and when he got to the 'slapping noise' part of the story, he'd break down and couldn't continue.
The media twisted that into Dranov testifying that Mike McQueary told him he didn't see any sexual acts, when Dranov testified that McQueary couldn't tell him because he kept breaking down.
Dranov advised John and Mike McQueary, as a physician, to call Paterno the next morning and not to call the police.