[edcoil]

Just exactly are we trying to punish here? The gay pedifile, the people that failed or the young men playing and trying to get an education?

Punish the guilty but don’t punish those not even there at the time.

[Morgana]

Students can transfer schools and their scholaships with them.

This went to the top at Penn State, as far as the president’s office.

That school needs to be destroyed brick by brick.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The gay pedifile, the people that failed or the young men playing and trying to get an education?

If the young men are trying to get an education, most likely they'll be permitted to continue as scholarship students at Penn State. And they want to continue playing Division 1 football, the NCAA will certainly allow them to transfer - and if Penn State thought enough of them to offer them full ride scholarships, so will plenty of other good Division 1 programs.

This isn't a punishment so much as an enforced re-ordering of Penn State's messed up priorities - priorities fostered by Joe Paterno and the others who abetted Sandusky's crimes (and with the Freeh report it's become clear that that's exactly what Paterno did).

[mazda77]

It is a lesson to be learned by all that the “unintended consequences” of those hurt by others is real and is just part of the penalty portion of those consequences.

Our society has been so desensitized and tolerant of abhorrent behavior that if there are no innocents affected, except those who were raped by Sandusky, there would not be a lesson learned to translate that pressure to other places in our society that have the same problems staring them in the face and doing nothing about it.

Accountability only begins with those negatively affected being able to tell all just how much of a burden they have been saddled with because of others inaction and ambivalence.

Idol worship is at the heart of this whole sorted story. The book of Genesis covers the consequences of this quite clearly.

[InvisibleChurch]

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.

[Jonty30]

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.