Have you read the NCAA bylaws? Go do it, focus on the many general bylaws on ethical conduct by members, and get back to us. The NCAA is a private institution. Penn State's actions went beyond the pale of anything done by any other of its private members.
And I've had enough of this 'the players, the community, etc.' had nothing to do with what went on' nonsense.
If you've paid any attention to NCAA sports for the last fifty years, you know that schools are punished with loss of scholarships, television bans, loss of bowls, vacating wins, and other penalties on a frequent basis for the actions of one or two individuals who frequently have already left the school. That's the way it's done. If any school deserves a 'gee, it shouldn't apply to us' exception, Penn State's not the school. Building the environment where this could happen involved all of Happy Valley - and environment where The Second Mile could fail to take action against Sandusky, where witnesses could be bullied out of schools, where students would riot.
There's a reason Penn State signed a consent to this punishment: they know it could have, and probably should have been, a lot worse.
The username's familiar. Did you perhaps post on here that JoePa didn't know about 1998? That JoePa reported this to the "head of the university police?" All of those other assertions that turned out to be false?
Remember the stories about how The Second Mile functioned as the hub of a large child prostitution ring, where access to kids was granted in return for large donations to the University? I wonder the fact that wasn’t mentioned as part of the Freeh Report was a reason that Penn State was ok with the report, because indeed if that were true, it would really have blown things sky high.
I have always disagreed with the NCAA dropping the hammer on institutions after the culprits are gone. Reggie Bush and Pete Carroll are an example. They go for the riches of the NFL and leave USC to suffer for the infractions THEY committed.
I want a mechanism to go after the actual culprits. Have coaches and administrators sign an agreement that they will be personally liable for any and all damages arising from their failure to manage, monitor, and control the entity they are responsible for. Destroy the destroyers. Spanier, Curley, and the Paterno estate should be open to lawsuits. They should forfeit any and all pensions and benefits.
The $60,000,000 grab by the NCAA? Why wasn’t it $600,000,000? Because they can build a new organization, hire a staff of well-paid lackeys for $60,000,000 and get away with it. $600,000,000 would be to obvious a grab. If Penn State needs reform, and it does, the NCAA should be next in line.
All I know NOW about Paterno is that as these various trials unfold he will NOT come away with a restored reputation. More likely, and especially now that he is dead, he will be made to look even worse.
One question I have, where was his son Jay Paterno, the Obama supporter, during the evil reign of Sandusky. Are we to believe he knew nothing about what was going on? I believe that he and Mike McQueery were both offensive coaches who worked together. This never came up? Is that possible?
Can’t wait for these trials to commence. All I want is the facts. What is the TRUTH about what happened.