Penn State Scandal: Since Joe Paterno Has Been Fired, Mike McQueary Must Also Be

At this point, it doesn't serve any purpose to recap what has happened at Penn State in the past couple days. 

Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant coach and Joe Paterno's right hand man for many years, was formally charged with the sexual abuse of eight boys over a 15-year span. Since Sandusky's arrest and publication of the report, former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz and former athletic director Tim Curley have been charged with failure to report the crimes to authorities. 

Even more shockingly, Joe Paterno, who coached Penn State for 46 years and had just celebrated his record 409th career win, was fired Wednesday night; fired along with Paterno was now-former university president Graham Spanier.

Neither of those two have been formally charged with a crime, yet they have both been heavily criticized for their failure to report the incident to authorities when they learned of it in 2002.

How did they hear about this, however? They heard about it from a graduate assistant, who was none other than Mike McQueary. McQueary was the starting quarterback in Penn State from 1996-1997 and set a few school records. After a failed stint in the NFL, he returned to Penn State to be a recruiting assistant and wide receivers coach. 

It is reported that in 2002, McQueary, then a graduate assistant coach, witnessed Sandusky subjecting a 10-year-old boy to "anal intercourse" in a Penn State facility shower. McQueary reportedly told Paterno, who told Curley, who told Schultz, who finally told Spanier.

Ultimately, the issue was swept under the rug, and Sandusky was simply told to not bring young boys to campus for charity events. 

It's a sickening and embarrassing allegation. Above all, the level of ignorance displayed by all of these men is amazingly deep. Did they really think that this incident would never surface again? 

But I digress from trying to psychoanalyze these men. The fact is, however, everyone involved in this scandal has since been arrested or fired except McQueary. 

The current Nittany Lions receivers coach, McQueary's situation remains unchanged at the moment. He may not be a big name at the university like Joe Paterno, or have a high-ranking position like Graham Spanier did, but that does excuse him from blame? Why didn't he just go to the police himself? 

A huge double standard has been instilled here. Paterno told his "higher-up," just like McQueary did. Why is required to do anything more than that? Better yet, why is McQueary not?

It will take years before Penn State will ever be able to clean up the mess this scandal has unearthed, but the best thing they can do next is to fire McQueary. 

If Paterno, Curley, Schultz and Spanier should have told police about this crime (which they should have), McQueary should have too. He was just as much an adult as the rest of them, and he witnessed the sick act. 

Again, he is the only remaining person who was involved in the scandal who is still employed at Penn State and he should be dismissed.