[MrEdd]

I would say if the NCAA does not shut Penn State football down than educational institutions should flauntingly ignore all its dictates, and state level courts should back them up and dismantle the organization.

[MuttTheHoople]

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”).

[dfwgator]

Penn State is the Mother of All “Lack of Institutional Control” scandals.

[goodwithagun]

The NCAA is meaningless and they have to know this by now. Ohio State: NCAA knew what was happening but also knew OSU is their cash cow; therefore, nothing done about the problem until others starting complaining. The U: NCAA was told there were issues there, they did not discover it themselves. Then they listed to a convicted liar and set out punishments. As it turned out, the convicted liar was (surprise!) lying. Penn State: Again, somebody else had to bring it to the NCAA’s attention.

As a former NCAA student-athlete I can tell you it is quite easy to get away with things. I didn't attempt to because I always had the idea that I would be the one who got caught. Others took a lot of advantage of it though.

[ConorMacNessa]

I never thought I would see something like this happen at Penn State. I was operating under the misapprehension that Joe Paterno was an honorable man and a paragon of virtue. I was wrong.

I think justice demands that the football program at Penn State be shut down. If and when it is resurrected, it should be de-emphasized and subordinated to the proper mission of the University. I love college football, and was a fan of Penn State, but I think it is clear that big-time football has become, at many schools, a rogue elephant.

When football coaches and university officials not only tolerate, but aid and abet the commission of felonies, it's time for some major changes. In the case of Penn State, the ruined lives of many young men cry out for justice. That cry should be heard and heeded!



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[randita]

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[HangnJudge]

Tulane Killed its Men's Basketball Program after it was found that the Players were shaving points on their own Games, in exchange for money and cocaine from a bookie.

The NCAA didn't make them, they did it on Principle
The entire coaching staff quit en-block

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-10/sports/sp-7596_1_guilty-plead-shaving

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_Green_Wave

How much worse is it to have tolerated Felony Pedophilia for Years

[GJones2]

If Joe Paterno had been a serial killer, he would have been liable for the criminal penalties for that, but as long as it didn’t give his team a competitive advantage, I don’t think the NCAA should be involved. The NCAA makes itself the judge of too many things (for instance, deciding whether mascot names are politically correct enough).

[rwilson99]

Every single student athlete at Penn State should have the opportunity to opt out of their scholarship and immediately transfer to the school of their choice without penalty.

[Chode]

if they don't and if opposing teams refuse to play them, then what??? like that would ever happen...

[Third Person]

Penn State needs to be shut down based on their hubris and denial alone.

[Pharmboy]

If the NCAA does not give that house of perversion the death penalty, they have lost all credibility.

[Jay Redhawk]

If the NCAA does not give Ped State the death penalty then it should apologize to SMU and pay them reparations. Harboring a predatory pervert just to save your college's reputation, and in the mean while allowing dozens of other boys to be raped, is far worse than having over zealous boosters paying players money.If Penn State had any class at all it would cancel football for the next five years and reevaluate the university's priorities.

[discostu]

All the stuff the NCAA comes down on teams for involves recruitment to the team or maintaining the amateur status of the players. Everything else they leave up to the law men. There won’t be any NCAA punishments on this, and there really shouldn’t be.

[SECURE AMERICA]

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.

Yes when the penalty is for infractions by players or related to recruiting. Sandusky being a homosexual pervert has nothing to do with anyone playing football or anyone that was recruited to Penn State. Yes many horrible things should be done to Administrators etc at the school. But on what basis can the NCAA do anything to a bunch of football players that have done nothing wrong, where not even there when bad things were done?

[Will88]

Most, or maybe all, NCAA rules violations are not crimes. Criminal behavior is the business of law enforcement and the courts, not the NCAA.

PSU will pay a heavy price in civil law suits, or in out-of-court settlements, and in other ways as a result of this. Sandusky has been tried and convicted and the three living higher ups may well face criminal charges.

It won’t surprise me if the NCAA does nothing.

[FreedomPoster]

Blast off, and nuke Happy Valley from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

[GOPJ]

...N.C.A.A. to impose serious penalties on the Nittany Lions football program, perhaps even to force the team to shut down for a time, the so-called death penalty.

That's the least the NCAA should do - shut them down. That sends the message... other perverts are watching.