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With Sandusky convicted and in jail, now we find out that the whole football program was complicit.
I have heard others say that the entire sports program at Penn state should be shut down. I disagree. That is punishing players and coaches that were as far removed from the child molestations as I am. However, the football program should be shut down for at least a generation and probably longer. Shut down until the stench of the Sandusky era can be removed. 25 years or 50 years or even longer. Then the entire records of the’Sandusky era’ should be changed to reflect forfeits of all games and the reason why. If and when Penn State is allowed to start up a football program, there should not be a living soul that remembers who or what Joe Paterno was.

Within the next couple of seasons one of two things will happen...

The program will be shut down, or Penn State will get possibly a greater punishment, a program that is regularly and soundly beaten into obscurity as athletes and their parents choose to stay away.

This is what should happen when you hire a man who studied ‘wife-swapping’ among other subjects to be your President.

Penn state should be shut down. I disagree. That is punishing players and coaches that were as far removed from the child molestations as I am.

Nah, it ain't punishing them in a way that matters more negatively than positively at all.

Not today.

Not tomorrow.

They won't spend time playing A GAME. They might be exposed to the idea that some things are far more important than a game. For some of them, this could be the very first time in their lives that concept is forcibly presented. It's a damned good thing to learn, and in fact - it is a better lesson than anything that can be learned playing a team sport.

Better than learning teamwork.
More important than learning physical self discipline.
More important than learning to keep going when you are losing.

Its a lesson that could save their marriage, or their relationship with their children.
Certainly a lesson that can keep them from traveling the same road the university leadership took.

This is a golden opportunity to learn that the right thing is still the right thing even when it is hard.

There are people who don't want to learn that.These students are not victims. The victims were a bunch of kids that were raped and then institutionally supressed.

Seeing the right thing done, and the tangible rewards that doing the wrong thing had reaped for the university stripped away is a good thing - for the entire student body and faculty. Athletes included.