Posted on 07/23/2012 8:24:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
College sports' governing body today suspended Penn State's football team from postseason bowl play for four years and fined the university $60 million for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
The team also must vacate all wins from 1998 through 2011.
"The career record of former head football coach Joe Paterno will reflect these vacated records," the NCAA said in a statement. "Penn State must also reduce 10 initial and 20 total scholarships each year for a four-year period. In addition, the NCAA reserves the right to impose additional sanctions on involved individuals at the conclusion of any criminal proceedings."
The fines are to be paid into an endowment for non-university programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims, the NCAA said.
"The NCAA recognizes that student-athletes are not responsible for these events and worked to minimize the impact of its sanctions on current and incoming football student-athletes," the statement said. "Any entering or returning student-athlete will be allowed to immediately transfer and compete at another school. Further, any football student-athletes who remain at the university may retain their scholarships, regardless of whether they compete on the team."
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Hitler? Really? I guess you think you’re funny.
It depends on what kind of TV they could negotiate.
A similar thing happened in English Soccer. The big clubs decided to tell off the FA (the English Soccer equivalent of the NCAA), and they formed The English Premier League, which is now the most lucrative professional league in all of sports.
This statement can be described as plain STUPID and illogical. Only 30 years of "dumbing down" America can explain how twisted and warped minds connected the dots to justify this kind or rewriting history.
You cannot change the past. Perhaps this group should exhume Mr. Paterno's body and put him in jail. What a bunch!
A. I don’t use google.
B. I took long enough to check my facts.
“If he were still alive and went on trial for covering-up child sexual abuse, do you think that the verdict would be substantially different than that of Jerry Sandusky?”
My guess is yes, it would be.
My understanding is Paterno heard some allegations and reported them to his superiors at the university. If nothing happened, he might have assumed they were BS. When allegations came around again he might have assumed they were BS just like the last time.
What would you think if a friend and co-worker, a family man who has a foundation that helps kids, someone you have known for 20 years, is accused of molesting children? Wouldn’t your first reaction be to doubt it and suspect someone is lying about him?
I don’t know if Paterno met his legal requirements or not, but I bet getting a conviction would have been difficult.
Paterno probably failed in his responsibilities, but I think there has been a rush to transfer blame to him because his death made it convenient. Paterno trusted a long-time friend who turned out to be untrustworthy. Sandusky is the one who was raping little boys, not Paterno.
Penn State could play Devry Institute, ITT Tech, University of Phoenix, and the Rocco school of typewriter maintenance.
> I guess everyone except JoePa is entitled to due process.
JoePa gave up “due process” when he chose to go the “let’s handle this quietly” with that pervert monster Sandusky instead of going to the cops.
Did you *read* the Freeh report? Here’s the Wiki summation:
“Emails uncovered by Freeh’s investigation revealed that Paterno had lied to the grand jury on at least two occasions: first, when testifying that he was unaware of any possible child abuse by Sandusky prior to the 2001 Lasch shower rape, and second, in claiming that he had only once spoken to Tim Curley about the 2001 incident. Emails uncovered by Freeh’s team showed Paterno had, in fact, closely followed an earlier 1998 investigation about possible child molestation by Sandusky. In 2001, while Paterno claimed his only discussion regarding McQueary’s report to him about Sandusky in the Lasch showers was with Curley immediately following the incident, subsequent emails revealed he had engaged in additional conversations with Curley pressuring him (and Schultz and Spanier) not to report the rape to police.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Paterno#Posthumous_findings
Fry in hell, JoePa. You aided and abetted the rape of innocent children.
Are you suggesting with a straight face that they would have covered it up if it was the chess team coach instead of the football coach?
A couple points here: 1. Barry Switzer said he knew about Sandusky, implication being the entire coaching fraternaty of the US knew which is why Sandusky retired so young. If Barry knew it in Oklahoma there has to be a lot more people in Pennsylvania that knew other than the top four that got fired, as in all the trustees at the very least.
Point 2. The new play-off system gives Notre Dame an incentive to reconsider aligning with the B1G. They could replace PSU and solve a big problem for the B1G Ten. PSU will not be competitive for a long, long time.
At my HS there were at least two lesbian and one gay coaches. The girls volleyball coach was briefly my homeroom teacher. She used to "hold court" before school with her favorite girls. They would sit on her lap and she would kiss and fondle them. (Don't bother with the fantasies...this coach looked like Danny DeVito in drag.) God knows what happened elsewhere. It was all out in open, everybody knew about it. I imagine it is much the same in thousands of schools.
Student athletes should transfer to other schools - those who don't want to should take the money and refuse to play.
The NCAA has no business punishing the football program for this. This had nothing to do with football except that there were coaches involved in non-football activities. NO NCAA rules were broken, the football players are being punished for something they had nothing to do with.
“According to the article, they can transfer without penalty, and if they choose to stay, can keep their scholarship whether they play or not. I’m pleased with that, at least.”
I’m not! Where are they going to transfer too? It’s almost August, all other schools have already given out all the football scholarships. Penn scholar-shipped football players should be able to transfer to other schools-—AND-—PENN STATE SHOULD STILL BE OBLIGED TO PAY THE SCHOLARSHIPS THEY WERE PROMISED!
A couple points here: 1. Barry Switzer said he knew about Sandusky, implication being the entire coaching fraternaty of the US knew which is why Sandusky retired so young. If Barry knew it in Oklahoma there has to be a lot more people in Pennsylvania that knew other than the top four that got fired, as in all the trustees at the very least.
Point 2. The new play-off system gives Notre Dame an incentive to reconsider aligning with the B1G. They could replace PSU and solve a big problem for the B1G Ten. PSU will not be competitive for a long, long time.
“Lack of Institutional Control”, it’s what they got OU for, under Switzer...only in this case, it wasn’t the players committing the crimes, it was the coaches.
ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN ON CAMPUS.
If the Feds find out that some big business is actually a money-laundering front, should they refrain from shutting it down because that will hurt the local economy?
It's like war -- you try to mitigate collateral damage, but a certain amount is inevitable.
Exactly, anyone who thinks that only athletic money goes to the athletic departments must also believe Social Security is completely self-funding.
Does this mean all opposing team’s wins against Penn State are vacated too?
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