Local PSU player reacts to cover up

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) - The same day a former FBI director released a comprehensive report of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a local Penn State player is weighing in on allegations of a cover up. 

"I'm embarrassed some by it, because I took so much pride in being part of P enn State football," Keith Goganious said.

Goganious went on to compete in the NFL. He currently coaches football at Hampton University.

From his home, Goganious remembers watching television and seeing Sandusky walk from the courtroom to a police car, handcuffed and convicted of 45 child sex abuse charges.

"Watching him walk out and looking in his eyes... that's not the guy I know," Goganious said. "He looks like a predator."

After the allegations surfaced, Goganious says he has thought many times about all the boys he met at practices.

"[I thought,] 'Did I see anything?' 'Was I not paying attention?' 'Or maybe I didn't see anything?'" Goganious said. "It puts you closer to the situation, knowing I saw these kids, and one of the kids could have been a victim."

As victims begin to get justice through the court system, Penn State football alumni are starting to realize their names are attached to a tainted legacy.

For Goganious, it's hardest to hear the latest report from a former FBI director, alleging former coach Joe Paterno took part in a cover up.

"To be caught up in this mess with Jerry... after all that hard work he put in, all those years when he should have retired and sat back and everybody should have said 'Thanks Joe,' now you have people pointing fingers at him," Goganious said. "And you can't say they're right or they're wrong, but you think of all that hard work."

Goganious won't go as far as to defend Paterno, but he will say the Hall of Fame coach is the not only one to blame.

"People are going to say Joe should have done this or done that.. .true to some point," Goganious said. "But he's not the president of the university."