Scandal at Penn State Poses Tough Choices for N.C.A.A.

The New York Times ^ | Saturday, July 14, 2012 | TIM ROHAN

[MinorityRepublican]

In N.C.A.A. parlance, “lack of institutional control” is a hazy, almost undefinable term. It is also the organization’s ultimate admonishment, the phrase it utters before handing down its most severe penalties.

Now, in light of the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, there is some question about whether those nebulous words will be used by the N.C.A.A. to impose serious sanctions on the Nittany Lions football program, perhaps even forcing the team to shut down for a time, the so-called death penalty.

[lonestar]

NCAA penalties more often than not, punish the innocent...long after the guilty are long gone.

Some schools never get punished and break every law in the book.

[lonestar]

NCAA penalties more often than not, punish the innocent...long after the guilty are long gone.

Some schools never get punished and break every law in the book.

[GJones2]

I think the NCAA is often inconsistent in the way it judges things too.

[GJones2]

I agree with some of what you said (most except for the idea that Penn State is not already suffering terrible repercussions), and rather than add something new, I’ll just agree to disagree about the rest.