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Maybe the Penn State University Board of Trustees is auditioning for a reality television show or something. Otherwise, it’s more than slightly baffling why the board waited until Thursday night to say Nittany Lions assistant coach Mike McQueary would not be coaching in Saturday’s home game against Nebraska.
It was either a photo of Nicole Moneer Guerrero or someone from Penn State such as Mike McQueary or Joe Paterno.
Or possibly swift, decisive action is not part of the board’s DNA. When that announcement came, it was in a statement that the university issued:
“Due to multiple threats made against assistant coach Mike McQueary, the University has decided it would be in the best interest of all for Assistant Coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday’s Nebraska game.”
Threats? By whom? For or against McQueary, who in 2002 as a graduate assistant saw former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky in a Penn State locker-room shower where he waas sexually assaulting a boy estimated to be about 10. According to a grand jury report, McQueary called his father before eventually informing coach Joe Paterno of the incident. Paterno informed his superiors at the school.
When the school did not take action against Sandusky, neither Paterno nor McQueary was inclined to inform law-enforcement officials. Why the board did not deal with McQueary when it fired president Graham Spanier and Paterno on Wednesday is curious. Unless the idea is to drag out the drama. Or to avoid backlash by those outraged by Paterno’s well-deserved dismissal.
Some have suggested Penn State cancel its game Saturday. Some have recoiled at the thought. Canceling the game will not undo the damage that occurred since the first Sandusky incident was reported in 1998. Canceling the game will not ease the pain of victims and their families.
Canceling the game would send a message: Some things — such as sexually abusing children — are more important than an athletic event. Oh, but it’s senior day and the last home game of the season. As if that’s a mitigating circumstance. Yes, the football players would be touched by the Sandusky situation — though not in the way that he touched the youngsters he is alleged to have abused.
Canceling the game would be an unfortunate consequence of one of the most horrific chapters in sports history. But it wouldn’t be the end of the world. And it would be a tremendous learning experience for the players, fans, alumni, etc. And, after all, Joe Paterno — who has been accorded near-deity status in State College, Pa. — always has been a great teacher. Too bad this time Paterno has shown the world how not to act.
On a much happier note, there is more video with IFBB Bikini Pro Nicole Moneer Guerrero from the recent 2011 Midwest Ironman event in Chicago. Don’t ask how a video featuring a male body builder managed to elude the well-trained eyes of the visual enhancement department at elliottharris.com. Anyway, Nicole has a “Fit for Life” event on Nov. 19 at Lifetime Fitness in Schaumburg. Registration is due by Nov. 12. You can check it out on one of Nicole’s Facebook pages at Nicole Moneer Ifbb Pro.