With the winningest record in Division 1 history, thanks to the win a few weeks ago. If they actually waited to for justice to be served until ol' Joe won his big game - well, that's beyond criminal with this monster still running around free.
I'm sure that factored into it somehow. How many schools could this kind of thing happen at, being allowed to continue and covered up for over a decade? Complete cronies.
As for McQueary, I think there's a number of reasons for the lack of vitriol directed towards him. I'm not entirely sure on how this story came along from the beginning, but he seems to be one of the few people involved who didn't stonewall or outright lie to the grand jury, and he deserves some credit for that. I can see some sympathy for his original situation, too -- he was an ex-player who probably revered Penn State, Paterno, and Sandusky, so to witness something like that it is easy to understand why he wasn't sure about what to do. What would you do if you saw your father raping some random 10 year old?
So for him to call his father and talk to Paterno personally the next morning, I can somewhat understand that. He still probably should have stopped what was going on while it was happening, or he could have at least made his presence known so that the assault ended. After that, though, what the hell was he thinking? He reported it to Paterno, and then Sandusky stayed around, and McQueary himself apparently got a promotion. Why would you even want to be a part of that with Sandusky still around? How could you ever talk to that guy again without wondering if he's raping kids off-campus? The promotion makes it even worse, since it makes you wonder if the way he handled it was to help his own career, which is just sickening. That doesn't seem to be the case, since at his meeting with Paterno he was "obviously distraught", but it doesn't excuse keeping quiet about it for so long.
The fact that McQueary was not only almost immediately promoted but also stayed on as an assistant with the team for so long while Sandusky was still around is just so egregiously wrong. It's like everyone he talked to -- all of his father-figures, authoritative coaches he probably grew up idolizing -- told him, "don't worry about it, it wasn't that bad", or "it's not a big deal" or "it happens all the time, just forget about it". Including Paterno. I mean really, how can McQ come to him "obviously distraught" about alleged sexual abuse and Joe Pa not even clarifying what he's talking about or finding out how serious it was? He was either told by McQueary or he knew without having to ask and stuck his head in the sand for plausible deniability. Either of which is completely reprehensible considering the consequences.
Everyone involved just looks so bad from all of this, and everyone they deal with just looks worse. I hope Paterno does hold his own press conference to talk about it, because it seems like he's either completely out of touch with reality about the whole situation, or that the administrators above him are trying to hush him up because he might say something about them.