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 ...
Other than shielding a pedophile he was a great guy.
I am not inclined to be vociferous in defending Penn State. I do note that Penn State could always withdraw from the NCAA and avoid (at least technically) some of the sanctions. I do hope the NCAA was careful in conducting its hearings and afforded Penn State the opportunity to try to defend itself.
At some point, however, the NCAA is going to get push back from some member schools, who may decide to form their own association, at least for some sports, although I don’t know what the NCAA is authorized to do if, say a football program left the NCAA while the same school’s basketball program elected to stay.
It means Paterno is no longer the winningest coach.
The NCAA has jurisdiction in the case, ultimately, because PSU is a member institution of the NCAA and this episode demonstrated not just a lack of institutional control, but a coordinated institutional effort to cover up crimes. If PSU didn’t think that the NCAA had jurisdiction, they could probably withdraw their membership, but then good luck on finding any games to compete in ever again. Also, the school signed off on the sanctions before they were announced, so that pretty much blows the “no jurisdiction” argument out of the water.
My lasting memory of “Joe Pa” will be him leading chants of “We are .. Penn State” on his lawn as the Sandusky story broke.
Burn. In. Hell. Child rape enabler.
Other FBS Programs To Receive At Least a 3-Year Postseason Ban Since 1960 School Year Length Indiana 1960 4 years • Improper recruiting inducements Oklahoma St. 1989 3 years • Improper financial aid, extra benefits Michigan St. 1976 3 years • Extra benefits, improper recruiting entertainment Houston 1966 3 years • Extra benefits, improper recruiting entertainment -- Source: NCAA Major Infractions Database
PSU is a state supported intitution. It’ll be interesting to see if they try to get the tsxpayers to pay the fine.
A cross-examination of the Freeh Report:
http://www.johnziegler.com/editorials_details.asp?editorial=220
Anyone care to read it.
The university signed off on the sanctions before they were announced. They agreed that the Freeh report was more than adequate to support the allegations and that these penalties were appropriate. I imagine the university was faced with a choice - either go along with these penalties, or face much stiffer penalties that you can then fight through an appeals process.
I doubt it. (Just shooting of at the keyboard here)
Say 10 or 15 D-1 schools decide to leave. Where would they go? Would those schools have the level of competition and financial backing from the networks to make a go of it? Kind of doubt it.
I don’t know why they didn’t impose the “Death Penalty”, because what they did will have the same result. Penn State ought to just suspend its’ football program for 5 years instead of going to through the motions and spending money to prop up a big loser.
PSU’s BOD & other executives should be paying the fine and losing their jobs.
JoePa makes a convenient figurehead (just as he did in more halcyon days), but there are many at PSU who made (and are still making) plenty of money and are probably even more culpable.
The Freeh Report blew that assertion to smithereens.
I expect the fine is going to the general operating fund of the NCAA, used primarily to pay NCAA salaries.
Athletic funds are a seperate pot of money. Taxpayer dollars don't go that pot.
I totally agree with your comments. Well said.
And it means that Mike McQueary was the last starting quarterback for Penn State and Joe Paterno, 1997, against Wisconsin.
/sarc
There are some professions that provide opportunities for perverts. Coaching is one of them. It’s why the Boy Scouts are fighting to maintain the integrity of its leaders.
I would not be surprised if you find at least one pervert on every coaching staff from the pros right down to the little leagues. I remember more than one sadist, and at least one sexual pervert on coaching staffs when I was in school.
They get away with it because we take sports way too seriously.
“Athletic funds are a seperate pot of money. Taxpayer dollars don’t go that pot. “
Money is fungible.
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