(Yeah, not everybody's happy in Happy Valley: Penn State professor starts petition against coach prospect James Franklin)
...at my druggist here in middle TN yesterday I had a conversation with a woman who was Sandusky’s next door neighbor at State College She said you woulda never believed it possible just in passing..he was the nicest most approachable man She detested him and the way it was handled but I like her felt it wrong to punish players who nothing to do with any of the crap
OK, let's hit the rewind button a year and a half ago when the NCAA came out with its sanctions vs. Penn State.
I can recall a FREEPER who asked then the question, "What did those [then-current] Penn State players do?" -- to be saddled with such penalties?
My response then was to say: "as if you didn't know, college rosters turn over every 4 yrs...and practically are new teams starter-wise every 3 yrs...under this new standard you propose, the ncaa statute of limitations for punishing teams for violations would be about 3 yrs...perhaps every 2 yrs if a given roster could be proven to have 'enough' turnover."
Sorry, but the NCAA -- no matter what college scandal we're discussing -- always has to penalize the given school's PROGRAM involved...
Anybody saying that starters can't be impacted by decisions made before they got on campus isn't living in a real world.
Even major league baseball did not wipe out Pete Rose's records when they banned him from baseball.
The facts will come out based on the recent court decision to allow the Paterno family, Penn State trustees, former players and coaches and professors as plaintiffs, who seek to have a jury overturn the sanctions the NCAA imposed on Penn State last summer.
“This is a case that deserves transparency and due process,” Paterno lawyer Wick Sollers said in a statement. “It is a case that can never be resolved until the full truth is known. With this ruling the bright light of legal discovery will finally shine on the facts and records of all parties involved.”
All the plaintiffs are still able to pursue the civil conspiracy claims, or the allegation that the NCAA and the investigators on Louis Freeh’s team worked together to hurt Penn State.
The judge wrote: The “plaintiffs’ allegations that (the) defendants and the Freeh firm recklessly disregarded (the) plaintiffs’ procedural rights in imposing sanctions in a criminal matter unrelated to recruiting and athletic competition, accepted the flawed Freeh report knowing it was not the result of a reliable investigation, and falsely accused (the) plaintiffs of enabling and causing child sex abuse are sufficient to allege malice.”
On Twitter, another Paterno son, Scott Paterno, announced the judge’s decision.
“Ladies and Gentlemen — the Court just gave us Discovery in Paterno vs. NCAA,” he wrote. “Here we go.”
Let the facts come out so we can make a true judgment of what happened sans emotion and innuendo.
The NCAA could have fined the school to the hilt without hurting the players who did nothing.
It kills opportunity for a future for the players.