Posted on 07/22/2012 11:19:02 AM PDT by Morgana
(CBS News) CBS News has learned that the NCAA will announce what a high-ranking association source called "unprecedented" penalties against both the Penn State University football team and the school.
"I've never seen anything like it," the source told correspondent Armen Keteyian.
NCAA President Mark Emmert will make the announcement Monday morning at 9 a.m. at the organization's headquarters in Indianapolis.
The penalties come in the wake of the independent report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh that chronicled repeated efforts by four top Penn State officials, including former football coach Joe Paterno, to conceal allegations of serial child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky over a 14-year period.
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It’ll be interesting to watch which universities descend upon Happy Valley to pick the carcass clean.
Oh booshwa.
Football players do not mind playing in the cold (mostly). The south has other enticements, such as all the great TV exposure that aspiring NFL wannabees crave. So they shun the TV graveyards of Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan, etc.
Sandusky coached at Penn State for more than 30 years before his forced “retirement” in 1999. My guess is that his “activities” dated back decades, and both Joe Paterno and university officials were aware of them. You may recall that Penn State authorized a payment of $168,000 to the pervert one year after he retired and conferred “emeritus” status on him, despite his lack of a graduate degree.
College coaching staffs work side-by-side, 18 hours a day, for nine months out of the year. Friends in the profession tell me there is “no way” tthe staff didn’t know what was going on years before, yet no one did anything. My theory is that the PSU football brand and the JoePa legend had become so important that PSU was willing to protect them at all costs—even if it meant covering up for a pedophile coach.
Can’t wait to see what sanctions are handed down by the NCAA. However, I believe the Nittany Lions deserve nothing less than the death penalty. This is the worst scandal in the history of college football; young men had their lives dsstroyed by a serial rapist who was allowed to continue his activities for decades. If that doesn’t reflect a lack of institutional control, I don’t know what does. And surely, you’d think the NCAA guidelines would include penalties for a member school that engaged in a criminal conspiracy.
Last week, I heard the Big 10 is considering a measure that would allow the conference commissioner to fire any coach or administrator at a member school that violates NCAA or conference rules. What an appalling commentary on the state of collegiate sports. By considering that rule, the Big 10 is admitting that its members literally can’t control their own athletic programs.
If that’s the case, it’s time to shut everyone down.
Which SEC school has a deal with NBC to show all of their home games, like Notre Dame does?
The football program is the idol here. Get rid of the idol then you get rid of the culture. They aren’t getting rid of the academics program or even the other sports (probably), just the football program. Any present players or signed recruits aren’t victims here. They might want to attend Psu, and they may, but any of them could easily have predicted what might come to pass then opted to stay and pay for an education or transfer. Of course, perhaps the ncaa committee might let them keep their scholarships for academic purposes and let psu take the financial hit. Guess we’ll know more tomorrow.
-shut it down for five years and let ‘em stew in it. Maybe they can come back and do the right thing.
The women at schools on the south a hotter.
What NCAA rules were broken?
I would think the new coach at Ohio State may have a beef with what you wrote!
So we shouldn’t punish criminals, because we’d also punish the people who love them?
I’m sorry if it’s going to punish the good men who like to play football, but the board, when it choose to overlook Sundusky’s extra-curricular activities, should have realized that it might have meant the end of football at Penn State.
At the very least, the whole program, and anybody connected to it, should be given a thorough scrub before it be allowed to rejoin. The only people I would not punish for this are those who honestly can show that they could not have known.
Don’t waste your time.
FR is no different than the entire media on this point, which seems to be engaged in a massive battle to see who can overreact the most.
If everything we’ve read is true, then the “guilty parties” at the university are either a) dead, b) in prison, or c) currently facing trial. The people who will be punished by the NCAA for a situation that did not involve any actual athletics programs are a) the residents of State College, b) students and student-athletes who were mostly in middle school when this happened, c) small business owners in State College, and d) Penn State alumni, all of which had nothing to do with the actual crime.
The NCAA referred to their punishments as “unprecedented” because they have thus far ignored all of their standards (investigations and hearings) and are accepting the Freeh report as basis for sanctions. They’re also possibly acting well beyond their actual authority, which can only be done with the willing acceptance of the University.
Make no mistake, the mob rules at this point. George Zimmerman has no chance. The reaction of many people, including the vast majority of FR, to this topic makes the reaction of the NBPP in Florida look reasoned in comparison.
I’d like to see ND come to the Big Ten w hat in hand looking for a spot. Their days as an independent school will have to come to a close if they want to remain a contender for any national championship. Their ham-fisted attempt to influence those in charge of deciding the four teams by demanding strength-of-schedule as a major part of the formula was laughable at best. Go IU!
Joe and Sandusky will become icons of the gay community. Let them march in their disgusting parades and all normal people will eventually realize same-sex rape of young boys is what yet remains in their closet. Keep outing gays on this issue and eventually they can be forced to shut their coprophilic mouths.
Ohio State might be very good under Meyer, but he will not win a title there. In fact, he probably won’t be beating Meechigan all that much, judging by how they’ve out recruited OSU so far.
Your anger is misplaced. The target should not be an athletic program, but same-sex deviants who pretend to be so gay and loving. The gay obsession with every organization with young men and boys should be readily apparent and should be the target of your wrath. Just look at what they are now doing to our military.
Good points. I wonder if the Big 10 read your post and thought, “Oh yeah, we guess we would look kind of helpless giving Jim Delaney the power to fire our coaches. Duh!”.
Good points. I wonder if the Big 10 read your post and thought, “Oh yeah, we guess we would look kind of helpless giving Jim Delaney the power to fire our coaches. Duh!”. Theyve since decided against that idea.
I hear they’re slashing their $100 Booster Handshakes to $50.
95% of the German people didn’t participate in Genocide, but they still had to pay for what the Nazis did. Also, you CAN’T tell me that State Penn fans didn’t know there was something wrong with sandusky.
Well put. I also think this did not first come to notice in 1999. True, that the football plug was pulled on Sandusky. He was not invited to coach elsewhere. But they did keep him around so I also think that Sandusky was protected for more than just football.
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