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."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
I’ll take that as an admission I’m right.
Talk about rewriting history.
Not sure if he was right with God at the time of death, but if he wasn't I'm sure Satan's minions will be reading this judgment to him for all eternity.
He covered up Sandusky, in order to win more games, he was obsessed with being the all-time winningest coach, and we saw what lengths he would go to to get that record.
The thing is, had he nipped it in the bud, and turned in Sandusky when he first found out, he would have been looked upon as a hero, and he might have gone on to even greater heights.
If it were up to me to deal out the punishment I would impose a lifetime ban on all sports programs AND give everyone involved (From the Dean to the janitors) 20 years in"Big Boy Prison" and put them in the general population.
NCAA is not a court of law. They investigate and impose sanctions under their own guidelines as is their right.
Penn State can add or remove statues without the government's approval.
This Commonwealth of Pennsyltucky is absolutely overrun with JoePa Kool-Aid Drinkers.
We are also a key swing state. Look for King Barry Hussein I to insert himself in this and to attempt to blunt the sanctions in order to curry favor.
So.....basically the NCAA (along with the media) is pinning these crimes and any knowledge solely on PSU and apparently the one guy who is no longer here to defend himself.
I guess no one else, at other universities, had any knowledge of these crimes and chose to remain silent.
Yea, right......
“Maureen Theresa “Rene” Muth Portland (born c. 1952) is an American former head women’s college basketball coach known for her 27-year tenure with the Penn State Lady Lions basketball team. Her career resume includes 21 NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000, five Big Ten Conference championships and two conference tournament titles. Portland is one of few women’s basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record of 606–236 at Penn State. She is accused of discriminating against homosexual players of the Penn State women’s basketball team.”
“Portland forbade lesbian activity among athletes in her program, as she explained in a newspaper article:
One of the first things Penn State coach Rene Portland brings up during a recruiting visit with a prospective player and her parents is lesbian activity. “I will not have it in my program,” Portland said. “I bring it up and the kids are so relieved and the parents are so relieved. But they would probably go without asking the question otherwise, which is really dumb.”
— The Chicago Sun-Times, June 16, 1986[6]
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“In 2006, former player Jennifer Harris accused Portland of removing her from the team because of her perceived sexual orientation. Harris filed a federal lawsuit against Portland, athletic director Tim Curley, and the university. An internal university review found that Portland created a “hostile, intimidating, and offensive environment” based on Harris’s perceived sexual orientation. Portland was fined $10,000, required to attend diversity training sessions, and placed on “zero tolerance” for future violations of the nondiscrimination policy.”
“On March 22, 2007, Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics announced Portland’s resignation, effective immediately”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Portland
Most conservatives know it’s the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution that guarantees the right to a trial.
Bobby was far from clean.
I agree that what Penn State and its coaches did was very wrong and should be punished. The law is there to punish them and make restitution of a kind, to the victims. If any of the victims had been Penn State players, the NCAA certainly would correct in taking action.
But let’s say Sandusky beat his wife, and Paterno got wind of it. Is Paterno supposed to publicize this and advise the NCAA about it? Is the fact that Sandusky (in this made up scenario) beat his wife alone enough to invoke NCAA sanctions? Any number of things can hurt an athletic program. I just don’t believe covering those things up somehow brings the NCAA into it, or at least it shouldn’t bring them into it. And who is the NCAA to take funds from a school and give them to organizations that, while very worthy, have no relation to NCAA sports?
Again, I believe Penn State should be punished, but the NCAA, in this instance, is the not the organization to do it, in my view.
As was pointed out yesterday on another thread, by that logic Hiler is innocent.
As was pointed out yesterday on another thread, by that logic Hiler is innocent.
How about the fact that Paterno not once inquired into the well being of Sandusky’s victims? What happened to that boy in the shower? Is he trapped somewhere? Is he still alive? Are the police on the way?
Those would be my first questions how about you?
If the taxpayers pay the fine maybe they will realize that state universities should not exist to provide taxpayer funded minor leagues for the NFL and the NBA. There is too much “worship” of minor league amateur football (college) all over the nation and the taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund either (that includes stadiums for the NFL too.)
YES
Give the pink mafia another decade or so and their perversions, even toward young boys, won't even be a crime anymore.
Penn state’s biggest enemies now are over-aggressive alumni and donors.
What the NCAA did wasn’t nearly enough.
Everyone above Paterno in the PSU org structure, up to and including Graham Spanier, need to be imprisoned for life.
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