Reply #24: Because Schultz and Curley are not famous. [View All]

[JVS]

And people are stupid. For example, people keep talking about this being about winning being more important than anything. This ignores the fact that since Sandusky was retired, he made no contribution to the team anymore.

This is actually the story of a botched whistle blowing. McQueary, shocked at what he had seen and in a position where he would have to put his reputation and credibility on the line against a way more powerful and influential person (Sandusky), went to Paterno, He should have gone to the police as well, but this seems to stem from a ignorance of procedure rather than malice, considering that all impetus to report this at all came from McQueary and that if he had truly wanted to cover this up he wouldn't have said anything to anyone in the first place. Paterno relayed the information up the line by Sunday morning (McQueary came to him Saturday, and had seen the rape on Friday late at night), which he was obligated to do because the law stipulates that the head of the educational organization has to file a report. What should have happened here is that Schultz should have gotten Spanier to sign off on a report (or signed off in his place) and telephoned McQueary saying "We are reporting this. By the way, you should be making your police report if you haven't already." Instead what happened is that Schultz and Curley relayed some vague verbiage about "horseplay" up to Spanier, then about a week later met with McQueary and told him that they had taken care of things (what that means is vague, but it probably made him think that he had actually reported it to them successfully), then Curley and Schultz sat back and did nothing with the information. This is especially bad because Schultz's duties included overseeing the campus (i.e. local) police. This is why the grand jury has indicted Curley and Schultz while at the same time viewing Paterno and McQueary as credible and cooperative to the investigation.