The outrage over Tennessee's reported interest in hiring Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano has made it all the way from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Following the lead of several Volunteer state politicians, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a scathing Facebook post on Sunday evening, criticizing the Volunteers for hiring someone who, according to testimony from former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary, was aware that Jerry Sandusky was abusing young as early as 2001.

"Guess who's the new head football coach at the University of Tennessee," Huckabee Sanders says. "Yup. The guy who covered up for Jerry [sic] Sandusky."

It's worth noting that Huckabee Sanders gets at least one key detail wrong here. Most notably, Greg Schiano is not, as of this writing, the head football coach at Tennessee. Secondly, "the guy who covered up for Sandusky" significatly overstates the degree to which Schiano was allegedly complicit in Sandusky's crimes.

"Greg had come into his office white as a ghost and said he just saw Jerry doing something to a boy in the shower," McQueary said of an encounter that another Penn State coach recalled having with Schiano in the early 1990s. "And that’s it. That’s all he ever told me.”

Though the allegation that Schiano knew about Sandusky's crimes decades before his arrest is certainly troubling, the only evidence against him is one man's recollection of a conversation from at least 15 years ago as told by a third person who was not present for the original conversation. That, of course, doesn't mean that McQueary's recollection of these events is necessarily incorrect or that his statement shouldn't be taken seriously. It's just that the human memory is fallible and 15 years is a long time.

Not going to re-litigate the lengthy, complex Sandusky scandal but headline is very misleading. A document included non-specific allegation based on hearsay that attorney general (who investigated everything) didn't take serious enough to investigate. That's a big difference. — Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) November 26, 2017

“I never saw any abuse nor had reason to suspect any abuse during my time at Penn State,” Schiano told ESPN in 2016.

Schiano was an assistant at Penn State from 1990 to 1995. Ohio State hired him in Dec. 2015, six months before McQueary's sealed testimony was made public.