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McQueary won't be at Nebraska game

Mike McQueary has been the target of multiple threats and won't be at the Nebraska game. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

BY NATE MINK, For the Daily News

Posted: November 11, 2011

STATE COLLEGE - Embattled wide receivers coach Mike McQueary will "not be in attendance'' at tomorrow's game against Nebraska, the school announced.

In a statement, Penn State cited "multiple threats" made against McQueary, and said it "would be in the best interest of all" for him not to attend.

McQueary told a grand jury he witnessed former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky allegedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy in the shower at the team's football building in 2002 when he was a graduate assistant, and informed coach Joe Paterno. McQueary has become the latest figure of controversy surrounding the football program after the university was rocked by the child sex abuse scandal last weekend. Since Sandusky and two university officials were indicted by the state's Attorney General's office last Saturday, the Board fired Paterno and accepted the resignation of president Graham Spanier.

No discussions have taken place about dismissing McQueary, interim coach Tom Bradley said at his news conference earlier in the day. A university spokesman, who said he was not familiar with the Board's discussions, could not speculate on the future of McQueary.

Bradley said McQueary's status will be determined by interim athletic director Mark Sherburne, although the Board of Trustees could intervene.

The Board will hold an open meeting at 9:45 this morning at the Nittany Lion Inn.

McQueary communicates the offensive playcalls from co-offensive coordinators Galen Hall and Jay Paterno to the huddle.

McQueary was at practice inside Holuba Hall yesterday.