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[QUOTE="PeteCalvin, post: 321062, member: 439"]
Let's pose two different scenarios:

1.  MM walks in on this assault taking place at the local YMCA, and the perpetrator is a complete stranger

2.  MM, working to become a coach at his alma mater, walks into said school's football locker room and witnesses a "respected" former coach sexually assaulting a young boy

I pose that in case #1, MM not only calls the police, but he intervenes...thus becoming the hero.

I pose that in case #2, MM may have thought about calling the cops, but the thoughts of self preservation and becoming a pariah in the PSU community made him hesitate and resulted in the call to his father.  He called his dad, I'm sure, partly out of guilt, and partly out of "HOLY , what do I do?"

He was afraid of Paterno and his future status in that storied program, pure and simple.  The "culture" had a lot to do with his lack of direct action that day.  I firmly believe that.  He has to live with that lack of action for the rest of his life.  I don't think for a minute he felt, or still feels, he did everything he could have done that day.  I bet he wishes he could do it over now that he knows what Paterno did to cover the thing up.  He sold his soul that day for "Paterno's Program".
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