Mike McQueary CBS Interview: Speaking Up Will Further Tarnish Coach's Reputation

Hasn't Mike McQueary learned anything after Jerry Sandusky's interview with Bob Costas?

Just a day after the former Penn State defensive coordinator poorly addressed charges of him allegedly sexually abusing a number of young boys, McQueary has decided to address his alleged role in the scandal.

McQueary, who allegedly saw Sandusky sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in one of Penn State's locker room showers in 2002, has come under fire for allegedly only going to head coach Joe Paterno with the news and not the police.

McQueary will speak publicly for the first time Tuesday night on CBS Evening News to give his story—that he did go to the police and did stop Sandusky in the locker room.

According to the Allentown Morning Call, McQueary wrote in an email to a former classmate he "did have discussions with police and with the official at the university in charge of police." McQueary also wrote he "is getting hammered for handling this the right way or what I thought at the time was right."

Of course, none of this is in the grand jury report, which simply has McQueary going to Paterno and his father; leaving it at that.

That is not to mention McQueary is already making the same mistake Sandusky did on Monday night when he interviewed with Costas on NBC's Rock Center, in short, making himself look bad with his words.

I find McQueary's email very interesting. He says he went to the police, which in itself would turn America back to his side if true.

Still, he then says he "is getting hammered for handling this the right way or what I thought at the time was right."

Wouldn't going to the police be the right thing? Why would he think it was right at the time and not now?

He's already contradicting himself and he hasn't even appeared on TV yet.

Most people defend themselves by getting a lawyer—which Sandusky and McQueary have done—but Sandusky and McQueary aren't letting their lawyers do their job and, instead, continuing to dig their own graves in this personal PR nightmare.