If you are asking me to buckle under the pressure of a few internet posters regarding my stand on what I believe it is right and smart thing to do, then you are more ludicrous than you have inferred me to be. You and others can have different opinions and standards, and I am not asking you to change nor can I change your perspective. I did not have personal attacks but only asking questions and trying to understand the full situation since I did not read the transcripts. By the way, much of this was sealed, which is why people didn't know it referenced Schiano. And my stands had nothing to do with what has been revealed recently.
If I walk in to my office and see a co-worker wiping white powder from his face I would not say anything to him. But if I see him sorting the last line of white powder, then I would ask him what is he doing. If he responded that it was powder sugar, which is very abnormal, then I would be more suspicious of him.
Now if this same situation happened when I am a police officer, then I would inquire further and even take it to my supervisor because the magnitude of the situation has changed now since he can be impaired to do his job to protect citizens, especially he is carrying a firearm. Fast forward this incident twenty years from now, and that police officer has been convicted of heavy drug abuse and killed multiple people because he was impaired, do you think it is reasonable for the grand jury and investigators to question me about what I may have seen during those earlier years, especially if I worked closely with that officer? You better believe it.
Now those questions and answers may have been sealed, but if a potential new employer or new police commissioner is about to hire me knew that I worked closely with that convicted murderer, do you think the commissioner has the responsibility to ask me what I know or may have seen? I personally believe it is both a smart and a responsible thing to do as the commissioner represent the entire police force under his control. I sure would not hire someone who knew that office did snort cocaine and said nothing. Let say I never did see that other officer snort cocaine but thought he did something suspicious like that and reported to my chain of command, the commissioner should be fine with that answer unless he knew I lied to him.
To me, the Penn St. situation is of a high magnitude or even higher since young children and their family have been affected for a life time. If UM knew Schiano was working in that close proximity, having access to the same general locations and opportunities to witness something (whether the information has not been revealed until now has no bearing on this), I would expect UM to ask something. Now UM may have forgotten about the situation and therefore didn't ask, then that is different. I believe UM is of a higher integrity and smart individual and did ask and received an appropriate answer from Schiano; UM was fine with the answers as he indeed have no reason to doubt Schiano.
This situation is sensitive to many people and have national impact, especially for our beloved TOSU. To make light of it by using irrelevant examples such as butt grapping, office cooler jokes and Kentucky whatever to justify one's opinion is not appropriate. Noe that is ludicrous!
