Mike McQueary: Public Disapproval, Threats Will Force out Penn State WRs Coach

Mike McQueary will not attend Penn State's game against Nebraska at Beaver Stadium on Saturday because of "multiple threats" against him, according to CBS Sports.

Despite head football coach Joe Paterno being fired as a result of a scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, McQueary still has his job.

McQueary told a grand jury that he saw Sandusky in a shower with an underaged male in 2002. McQueary then told Paterno, who alerted people above him.

Now that Paterno has been fired, people at Penn State and people outside the university are wondering how on earth does McQueary still have a job?

He likely won't have a job for long, however. The combination of threats made against him as well as public demands for his termination will eventually drive him out.

How does the school fire Joe Paterno—again, Joe Paterno, the icon of Penn State University—but at the same time allow McQueary to remain on the coaching staff?

It's a bizarre move by the school, to say the least.

Not only do people from within the school want him gone, there is a strong outside opinion that McQueary should be fired.

Penn State has handled this entire situation very poorly, and McQueary's job is just one part of it.

These threats are a bit much, though. He did not do anything illegal, and we don't know the full details of the entire situation.

Regardless, McQueary has to go. The longer he is a coach on the Nittany Lions football staff, the more of a distraction he will become. That is the last thing the school needs right now.

Penn State needs to rid itself of distractions, not prolong them and allow them to become more severe.