Looking like a good class
Posted on 07/17/2012 6:32:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In a PBS interview broadcast Monday night, NCAA president Mark Emmert refused to take “anything off the table” regarding its possible punishment of Penn State University in the wake of the damning Freeh Report. The results of former FBI director Louis Freeh’s investigation, released last week, concluded that top Penn State officials — including former President Graham Spanier and former head coach Joe Paterno — “repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse from the authorities” in order to “avoid the consequences of bad publicity.”
So the so-called “death penalty” for Penn State football is possible. And though that punishment seems particularly severe — and totally unwarranted, according to Penn State supporters — it’s actually an act of mercy. Plus, the consequences can be very productive, both on and off the field.
The “death penalty” sounds much worse than it is. It’s actually a temporary shut-down of a college football program. In the 1980s, SMU’s football team got a one-year sentence, and took another year off to regroup, because players were being paid from a slush fund. (You can certainly argue that SMU should be lauded, not punished, for allowing revenue-producing players to get a piece of the college football revenue pie). If Penn State sat out, say, this upcoming year, the players could retain their eligibility for next season. So a current senior, for example, would be able to play in 2013. An incoming freshman could still play four years of football at Penn State.
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Good news for Ohio State's Buckeyes.
Five years, in my opinion. Let the players transfer to other schools or keep their scholarships, since it isn’t their fault.
Five years is minimum. It allows a full “generation” to pass at Penn state before they start over.
I agree - 5 years minimum. No football, no recruitment, no play. If this kind of activity does not warrant this then nothing does. The whole institution is lousy with self preservation and criminal conduct.
Sorry that is affects the current players but that is just too bad. They can always transfer if they are good players.
They'll learn a valuable life lesson that silence and complicity can have serious consequences.
Doesn’t matter to me, but I don’t see a reason to shut it down at all.
Coaches are all gone, new students now, President fired...
now if the board will resign...
Agree!
Looking like a good class
why just the football program???
the former president, VP and the AD were also involved in the cover-up- the VP and AD are charged with perjury ....
no one on the PSU football team today was involved in anything w/sandusky...if its going to be the death penalty it should be all PSU sports considering the amount of decision makers involved in the cover-up...
I must agree with you. I also must point out how invalid is the NCAA. I’m a fan of The U and the current issues there, which turned out to be pretty much non-issues, were presented to the NCAA. The NCAA discovered nothing. As a former student-athlete who competed against OSU, I can say that everyone knew what was happening there, the NCAA chose to ignore what their cash cow was doing. Penn State? The NCAA is pointless. Oh yeah, they make a lot of money off the hard work of student-athletes and then bust them if someone buys them a Coke.
“If football doesn’t exist at Penn State:
Good news for Ohio State’s Buckeyes.
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The Bucks are on probation and barred from the big 10 championship game and any bowl games this year.
the NCAA is the perfect liberal organization; completely hypocritical and completely full of BS....how Miami and UNC did not receive massive sanctions proves as much....
the fact there’s been little investigating into what went down at the U and clinton crony donna shallalah, who was knee deep in the shapiro issue, remains untouched, is further proof how they won’t go near the $$$ makers...
Since it’s really ALL about the money, take that away from them.
Otherwise, there is really no actual punishment for their institutionalized looking the other way.
Close their football program down for at least five years, let them have to earn from the scholastic aspect of the university.
They DO teach something more than football?
Slash coach salaries too**, pay them the same as other instructors, less incentive to sacrifice children for $$$$$$$!
If the football program never recovers it’s former “Glory”, that’s a consequence they have deserved.
And pull down the stinking Paterno statue too!
**Slashing coach salaries should be done everywhere, too many coaches make more than state governors!
They take state funds, so the state should have a say.
If pro-ball wants to continue using the colleges as a farm system, let them put money into the ENTIRE university, not just the pockets of players essentially winning a lottery.
It is time for Penn State to clean house.
Shut down football at Penn State until the last rape victim has died of old age...
There was a ton of investigation that happened at The U: Then it sank in that the NCAA was listening to a convicted liar.
Correct, time to cut this ugly beast’s throat. Remove all of those that were involved and send to a State Penn. They know who they are.
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