[Moonman62]

Yes. Can you just imagine Wide Receiver coach Mike McQueary being on the sideline Saturday? When it was his cowardice that was the key sequential fall in this domino of events? Had McQueary intervened, things would have turned out much differently.

That's been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.

[Vermont Lt]

As they say, “we have a bingo.”

[WoofDog123]

“That’s been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.”

That is the most obvious conclusion - that he would be ruined, and the issue may or may not ever even become public or acted on. Would he have had good reason to expect the campus police to work very helpfully with the interests of the school?

[Colofornian]

That's been my question all along. Perhaps he feared Paterno and Penn State would ruin his career if he went directly to the police.

You know, in one sense his decision to be a coward was reinforced by Paterno as being the "right" one.

After all, Paterno "Rewarded" his silence by first upgrading his career from Grad asst (2002) to Wide Receivers coach...and then to the heavily coveted head of recruiting for Penn State position.

If that doesn't top it all in summarizing Paterno's "take" via actions, I don't know what does.