According to testimony from a deposition of former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary in 2015, former Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano told former Penn State defensive coordinator Tom Bradley in the early 1990s that he saw Jerry Sandusky “doing something to a boy in the shower.”
That was decades before Sandusky’s pattern of sexual abuse of young boys came to light and, along with other testimony, has reignited questions about why no one at the school said or did anything about Sandusky’s serial misconduct until 2011. Schiano, who is now the defensive coordinator at Ohio State, responded to McQueary’s testimony later on Tuesday.
“I never saw any abuse, nor had reason to suspect any abuse, during my time at Penn State,” Schiano said, via Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Schiano hasn’t been in the NFL since being fired by the Buccaneers in December 2013 and the new wave of attention being paid to what went on at Penn State during Joe Paterno’s time as head coach isn’t going to impact our usual stomping grounds of professional football. In light of the revelations about Baylor’s program earlier this year and other issues around the price colleges are willing to pay to have winning football teams, there may be some calls for the NFL to reevaluate some of its relationships with what is its de facto development system.