BREAKING: PSU receives 4 year bowl ban, vacates wins, fined $60 million

[Yankees2772]

nah not really

So it's fair to punish the students, like me, for a cover up that occurred in 1998, when I was 6 years old?

It's fair to punish the student athletes, many of whom dreamed their whole lives of playing for PSU?

It's fair to punish the current regime of hired coaches, such as Bill O'Brien, who stuck their necks out on the line to try and rebuild the program? So now, they are completely crippled and maimed?

It's fair to punish the community, which revolves 100% around PSU football? What happens to the shops that are open to sell gear? The restaurants who rely on visiting tourists? The hotels? The gas stations?

What happens to the state of Pennsylvania? As recently as 2009, PSU football was estimated to have contributed over $150 million annually to the state of Pennsylvania in revenue. How's that going to be replaced?

You're punishing the students, athletes, community who rallied around the victims and raised thousands upon thousands of dollars to support them. Perhaps we were misguided by the Paterno protests, but at the time it seemed reasonable to be upset over the firing of an absolute icon of the school when there was very little information indicting him. Those same students are the ones who raise millions of dollars every year during THON, a 100% student run organization which raises money for pediatric cancer research. Last year alone we raised $10 million.


The only people being punished by this are the students, athletes, community, current coaches... The people that this is supposed to reprimand are already either dead, rotting in jail, or fired and on trial to also rot in jail. Why can't the NCAA simply stay within it's grounds and punish for ON FIELD advantages, and let the proper authorities punish the school and those associated with any crimes?

 

[elcheato]

Using the don't punish the innocent card could work for almost all sanctions and penalties. The guilty ones are always fired, suspended, kicked off the team or long have not been on the team, but the team still gets hit.

But, this really has nothing to do with the actual game of football, which is why the bowl ban and scholarship losses are too much.

 

[Elite]

The reason Sandusky was able to do what he did was because he was a member of the football program and the reason it wasn't stopped is because members of the football program failed to act. I can see why the NCAA felt obligated to do it

 

[ZigZag]

The reason Sandusky was able to do what he did was because he was a member of the football program and the reason it wasn't stopped is because members of the football program failed to act. I can see why the NCAA felt obligated to do it

And those members are gone.



CAN SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION

Who are these sanctions punishing besides the innocent?

 

[bosoxlover12]

Bill O'Brien's contract with Penn State automatically was extended four years through 2020 when the NCAA handed down unprecedented sanctions against the embattled football program.

The worst of it all!! lol

 

[Teagz]

Silas Redd needs to get to USC ASAP.

He isn't one of the ones who are staying right?

 

[adamu]

I think the whole point the NCAA is trying to get across is that the football program is being punished because of how all powerful it was within the system and community and that power was used to enable what happened when it should never have had enough power to usurp the authority of the school itself. The program was so above the heads of everyone that it could cover something like this up with as many witnesses as there were, the NCAA wants to make sure that never happens again. IMO the punishments are proper.