No, it’s not. If they can put a team on probation for a coach giving one of his players $10 for a Big Mac Meal, they surely can give the Death Penalty for an entire University and community condoning Homosexual Rape of young boys (the locals saying they never knew what was happening with Sandusky, sounds a lot like German residents outside Concentration Camps who “never knew what was going on”).
> the locals saying they never knew what was happening with Sandusky, sounds a lot like German residents outside Concentration Camps who “never knew what was going on”
I live outside an American military camp but don’t know what’s going on inside (for instance, whether the trainees are being trained properly). Neither do I know what’s happening, in secret, in neighborhood schools and churches. I don’t believe that 99% of the Penn State fans, students, or football players knew what Sandusky was doing.
A whole lot of people knew about the goings on at PSU but did nothing, because their sports were more important than those boy’s welfare. The university should pay the penalty. Maybe colleges and universities can then focus on the reason they are supposed to exist...education.
Ah, but that sort of thing poses the only threat the NCAA cares about...namely anything that threatens the profit margin, such as the very notion that the reason people watch college sports (the players) should be compensated with anything other than the free "education" they get. As for Penn State, of course the football program should be shut down (for at least a year), but it won't be. The interests of children don't stand a chance up against Big Time College Football.