So the NCAA is going to start cracking down on “porn, prostitution, the drug war and serial child rapists.”? I thought they were set up to exploit poor athletes by setting up a system where these athletes generate hundreds of millions of dollars and get penalized for trading a jersey for a stupid tattoo.
How about we let THE LEGAL SYSTEM take care of the culprits. The things done in State College are CRIMES. Explain how the NCAA is set up to handle this.
What comfort does a $60,000,000.00 fine of PSU bring any of Sandusky’s victims? What does lost bowl opportunities, lost scholarships, and taking wins away from Paterno do for the victims? It may make those of us who despise PSU feel better, however, it is a slap in the face to every victim to have these things touted as any kind of adequate punishment for what they suffered. Sentencing the fiend(s) to life in jail, taking away their freedom, preventing anyone else from being victimized is the only real justice.
Leonard, it's REAL simple...and this explanatory NCAA bylaw made the rounds numerous times in FR threads last November...
Just because you specifically aren't aware of ALL the bylaws each university "signs up" to adhere to as part of the NCAA, doesn't mean they don't exist or aren't to be applied...
NCAA Bylaw 2.4: The Principles of Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct. For intercollegiate athletics to promote the character development of participants, to enhance the integrity of higher education and to promote civility in society, student-athletes, coaches, and all others associated with these athletics programs and events should adhere to such fundamental values as respect, fairness, civility, honesty and responsibility. These values should be manifest not only in athletics participation but also in the broad spectrum of activities affecting the athletics program.
* Are you somehow wildly claiming that all of this was somehow beyond "ethical conduct?" (Sorry, Leonard; "ethical conduct" is covered under bylaw 2.4)
* Do you somehow wildly believe that each of these coaches & admins were setting wonderful, exemplary actions that "promote[d] the character development of participants"? (Sorry, Leonard; egregious breaches of this can't be ignored)
* Do you somehow wildly believe that Penn State covering up child rape "enhanced the integrity" of Penn State as an institution of "higher education"? (Sorry, Leonard; but 'twas an epic failure here)
* Do you wildly claim that the Penn State "athletics program..." has over these past 15 years "adhere[d] to such fundamental values as...honesty and responsibility"??? (Sorry, Leonard; but if Penn State or Paterno or the campus admins are your collective "poster boy" for conveying 'fundamental values' of 'honesty and responsibility' both to those on and off the campus, you are one wacky assessor of values)
Therefore, under NCAA bylaw 2.4, NCAA HAS the authority to hold Penn State accountable for...
* Egregious ethical violations;
* Actively contributing to a whirlwind of campus moral freefall with by way of demoting character enhancement;
* Forfeited its reputational integrity via attempting to compartmentalize criminal and ethical behavior from what its campus actions, oversight, and accountability process mandated -- all the while seriously contributing as an accomplice to serial child-rape and the delinquency of minors;
* And sharply ignored -- DAILY ignored -- practicing such fundamental values as honesty and responsibility. ****
Fact: JoePa was the HIGHEST paid employee at Penn State and was a personality 'god' there...(anything he said went)
Fact: AFTER grad student Mike McQueery became a child rapist eyewitness, JoePa elevated this child-rapist eyewitness Mike McQueery from grad student to wide receivers coach -- and then promoted him again as holding BOTH the WR coach position AND head of recruiting...these bought the continued silence of McQueery until he was brought before a grand jury.
Fact: JoePa (& other admins) covered up what he/they knew and utilized his/their power to bury eyewitness evidence for as long as possible, and failed to take steps to ensure that Sandusky didn't have continued open access to the Penn State campus.
All of this WILL not only result in the multi hundreds of $millions of loss suffered by Penn State's insurance, (which will turn around and gouge Penn State with exorbitant make-up premiums until Christ returns), but will continue to drag Penn State, The Big 10, and the NCAA thru the mud for decades to come!
The new full-time job of dozens associated with Penn State will be either providing civil-suit depositions or involved in some other full-time manner (PR dept, etc.), which ultimately will NOT prove to be good stewardship of ANYBODY on the Penn State payroll being funded by student funds or benefactors.
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Bottom line, Leonard: If YOU want to keep up your online advocacy on behalf of those protecting and enabling a serial child rapist to continue violently and sexually abusing little boys, go right ahead. But your credibility via such advocacy on FR has been shot! And there are fewer institutions worth wasting it on than Penn State!