Rush has some bizarre love of things Pennsylvania.
He’s a Steelers fan and the guy that owns the team and the coach are HUGE Obama backers.
The only people this punishes are the students who had nothing to do with Sandusky’s crimes. If there are people who covered things up, let them be punished but this collective punishment of the innocent is the same philosophy that Obama uses in trying to “punish the rich”.
Heads of institutions need to root out the evil within and take their lumps. When Sandusky was first discovered sodomizing children on campus, the college was innocent. Calling the cops and the resulting scandal still as the university as secondary victim.
Having covered up for sandusky’s crimes for years, and thus aiding him to rape many more children, the university itself is as filthy as if they were holding the boys down for Sandusky in the locker room shower.
Rush got his facts wrong. This was not a football program issue. Freeh was paid $6m by the Board of Trustees to put all the blame on Paterno and the football program. They quickly accepted his conclusions (that Paterno was the mastermind in sweeping it all under the rug), despite the fact there was ZERO evidence in the report to support Freeh’s conclusions. The board quickly accepted sanctions on the football program without a whimper, even though no NCAA rules were violated by the football program.
The cover-up is still going on. There is a protection of very infleuntial/wealthy people going on right now. They don’t want a real investigation to see what took place. They want it over now. A few of the newer BOT members are fighting the old guard, but it’s looking like a losing battle as they are outnumbered by left-wing pigs.
Does anybody understand the accreditation process? I would imagine that colleges & universities are periodically audited to determine if their programs are currently meeting the standards set forth. Is it possible that PSU was simply “under review” at this time (when the Sandusky trial concluded)?
The university is not guilty. Persons employed at the university are guilty. Only those guilty should be punished.
The heads of the university allowed these rapes to continue, so, sadly, to prevent anything like this happening again, the whole university is being brought down. By those who stayed silent rather than doing the right thing.
Did the players know about the wrongdoing and assist in the cover-ups? How abut the fans?
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
Albert Einstein
I think risking de-accredidation is too far. I think everybody that need be punished already has, except anyone who ought be prosecuted for the coverup.
Sandusky will never see freedom again. Paterno got canned, and his reputation rightly destroyed. Various administrators have left and are being investigated for criminal prosecution. The football program was hit with a near-death penalty by the NCAA ... and the school itself got financially gutted, and their precious football program flattened, for protecting football at the expense of children.
I don’t think challenging accreditation does anyone any good.
SnakeDoc
I have no connection to Penn State or anyone involved, but usually when you see a regulatory body (especially a non-government one) acting in what looks like an overbearing way, there are two sides to the story. In this case, I suspect that Penn State was treating these people the same it treated the victims, with a none-of-your-business attitude, and these guys don’t have to take that crap, and won’t.
As to the students - maybe Penn State should give them some thought too.
The only thing I needed to read in the Free Report was AD Curley’s email to Spanier saying he “was uncomfortable in calling the Police after talking to Joe.”
When a coach can effect a legal investigation then it violates NCAA rules as ‘lack of institutional control’