[Zakeet]

[healy61]

60 million. My goodness I didn’t know buggery could be sucha good business haul.

[Colofornian]

(Well, can't Penn State just have a stadium yard sale...and sale the stadium yard by yard?)

And then they can move on to a campus yard sale...and sale it piece by piece...and then donate all proceeds to Sandusky's victims...

[SkyDancer]

That’s more than Penn State is worth.

[razorback-bert]

Another to big to fail category is found

[Colofornian]

The NCAA should just clip off the East side of the Big 10...’tween Penn State and the University of Indiana’s cover-up and pedo sexploitation of those linked with Kinsey’s “researchers”...the Big 10 is one THE most embarrassing presence in the NCAA today.

[EGPWS]

So where is the money going to come from to pay the fine?

Increased sport ticket sales or let me guess, taxpayers in the long run...

[Mr. K]

why is the NCAA fining and punishing students who had nothing to do with it?

why isn’t this a CRIMINAL case 100%?

[Riptides]

I’m waiting for Brian Ross to report that the Tea Party had some involvement in this.

[Uncle Chip]

The NCAA wants to get some money before the lawsuits start coming in. It might be one thing if it were to distribute the money among the victims, but they won’t. Instead they’ll just set up some self-serving program and wave it before a gullible public who will think that they are actually doing something.

[af_vet_rr]

To put the fine in perspective, Penn State's athletic department had $116 million in revenue for the 2010-11 school year, the most recent data available according to figures from the U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics.

Penn State has plenty of wealthy alumni who are Joe Paterno apologists, and who won't mind coughing up the money to help the athletic department get over that little bump.

A fine will not harm Penn State's athletic department. Now what they do on Monday is another story. I personally question whether the NCAA has the guts to really send a lesson to Penn State. I don't believe they do.

[randita]

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[BatGuano]

Since when has an organization like the NCAA had the power to levy a fine such as this? I can see sanctions and prohibiting athletic scholarships etc., but a fine? I would like to think that only a court had this power.

[Thumper1960]

I am a PSU fan. Have been since my youngest years.
PSU isn’t going to dwindle away.
It’s a great school. The Sandusky crimes, and those of the officials who didn’t do all they could to stop him, are the crimes of those who participated. Collective punishment stinks and any so-called ‘’conservative’’ who pushes collective guilt and punishment is welcome to kiss my lily white tookus.
Because a few dirtbags failed, are we to flog the entire community?
Let those who did the crimes do the time.

[Thumper1960]

I am a PSU fan. Have been since my youngest years.
PSU isn’t going to dwindle away.
It’s a great school. The Sandusky crimes, and those of the officials who didn’t do all they could to stop him, are the crimes of those who participated. Collective punishment stinks and any so-called ‘’conservative’’ who pushes collective guilt and punishment is welcome to kiss my lily white tookus.
Because a few dirtbags failed, are we to flog the entire community?
Let those who did the crimes do the time.

[xzins]

an endowment for children's causes

Kid's Homes, Kid's Programs, Kid's Centers

Just what we want is 60 million in the hands of a bunch of leftwing lunatic professors from Nambla.

[COBOL2Java]

The record fine will go toward an endowment for children's causes, sources said.

When he heard about the amount, Kofi Annan said he and his son would "Gladly help in any way to manage these funds!"

[Figment]

Should be at least a two year death penalty for all sports. Anything less is a joke

[fortheDeclaration]

It seems that only thing that gets Penn. State attention is the NCAA hammering them.

They show no signs of remorse for what happened, only a digging in of their heels since their donations haven't fallen of.

If the NCAA hadn't gotten involved that statue would still be there.

So, I frankly don't want to hear whining from the PSU alumi who have constantly defended the school despite all the evidence that it's leadership, including Paterno were involved in a criminal cover-up.

The Alumi have no one to blame but themselves for these penalites.

[Jay Redhawk]

A huge fine without the addition of the death penalty should be looked at as a payoff. An apology to SMU may be in order.

[InvisibleChurch]

One of the best things would be to severely limit psu’s scholarship allotment to about 20 per year for several tears, crippling the program. Let ‘em cheer for Pedstate as they lose to Indiana University.