It would destroy the local economy. Why should people who have nothing to do with this crime pay the price? Go after all involved financially and criminally.
It makes a point that this sort of thing WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
If I go out and rob a bank and get sent to prison for decades, thus making it impossible for me to make a living, it would destroy my household economy, and people who had nothing to do with the crime would pay the price.
Does that mean that if I rob a bank I shouldn’t go to prison?
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.)
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.
That’s life....the local economy makes money if the TEAM wins and is drawing in people and money....If it doesn’t, oh well, that is the flip side.
You can’t just take the economic gains and if something happens to damage those possible future gains then demand that “it’s just a few people in the football group....”
No its PSU—in Glory, money days or in bad times.
BTW, THIS is exactly why no one wanted to prosecute Sandusky or stop him....EVERYBODY in that town was making money and the people that knew didn’t want to mess with that, or their own money or fame.