I’d like to see Penn State challenge this in court. Somebody has to stand up to the NCAA once and for all.
This horrific crime had absolutely nothing to do with the Football program at all. Sandusky was not even an active coach at the time. The victims were not Penn State students or athletes. I can understand part of the sanctions. A hefty fine makes sense.
But, victimizing players from a decade ago is just wrong. What did they do wrong? Absolutely nothing. The Assistant coaches? I wonder how many knew anything about Sandusky and the kid in the shower? I can’t imagine Paterno saying anything about this to his staff at the time. You can’t have it both ways. If there was a cover up, then wouldn’t this have been kept secret? Only Paterno, the witness, and a few Admin guys would have known.
The NCAA over reached this time. I hope Penn State has the guts to fight this stupidity.
Fat chance. First off they’d lose, and lose badly and they know it. Secondly, they want this swept back under the rug as quickly as possible. A lawsuit would bring even more malfeasance to light IMO. Thirdly, they voluntarily joined the NCAA. If they don’t want to abide by their decision, they are free to quit.
So they’re the equivalent of exhibition games, then, basically?
People, it had EVERYTHING to do with football. Paterno covered it up because he cared more about the consequences to his football program, and the impact it would have had than Sandusky’s victims.
Penn State has agreed to the NCAA sanctions. Frankly, if they were to challenge it in any way it would only add to the PR disaster they already have. At this point, they know the best thing they can do is accept the punishment and move on. Anything else will only make things worse. I don’t necessarily agree with everything the NCAA has done, but Penn State knows this is a no win situation and there will be no appeal, etc.
Gosh darn it, it is impossible to find now as punishment and Paterno dominate all other descriptive words in Google’s search.
But the easiest story to find (if you can!!!) is the one where Paterno assigned the football players to sweep the bleachers after the game whereas all of the other students involved in the fight? at a frat? house were punished by probation (expulsion?). WHen this happened 2-4 years ago there was a pretty big to-do about it at the time about Paterno’s favoritism and control, but everyone (in the media or at least at Penn State) seemed to be on the side of, the football players ARE being punished. This incident was cited widely just last week after the freeh report that was an obvious demonstration of Paterno’s control over the University.
I apologize for not being able to pull the articles right now, but perhaps someone else can help out or perhaps it jogs your memory.
It’s also no secret that Switzer is a horse’s ass and about as smart - and about as squeaky clean as a sewer. Bringing a gun to the airport, for starters. The absurd just gets more so. lmao @ him acting like he has a clue about this. Or anything, for that matter.
Oh well back to the witch hunt and mindless hysteria. Burn baby burn!
“HEY YOU! Did you just say you watched a Penn St game once? Big fines and maybe jail time for you mister! Cmon gang, bring the torches, we gots us another’n here!”
No, it doesn’t. I’ve worked in many large organizations and at no point would anyone have considered covering up child rape because it would have hurt the team. This is not normal organizational culture.
Even if the Penn State administration thinks they’re being treated unfairly, they’re not COMPLETE idiots, and they know very well that, outside Pennsylvania, there is ZERO sympathy for them.
There are FAR more people who think Penn State got off too lightly than there are who think (as I do) they’re being punished too severely. There’s absolutely no hope of appealing or getting a lighter sentence, so there’s nothing to do except take their medicine and hope for the best.
Apparently one reason Penn State accepted these sanctions was that even tougher ones - including a four-year football ban - were discussed. That’s pretty breathtaking. And now, back to oreally posting about Penn State football fans being hunted down and killed.
Even using the dates of a know event? It seems a fairly broad, damning claim like this would be fairly easy to substantiate via something other than one’s memory.
First, most organizations don’t have a team to protect Second, how do you know? Have you ever worked in a high enough position where such decisions are typically made? If you had asked anyone at PSU a few years back, what do you think they would have said? If you honestly think Apple’s board wouldn’t have covered up crimes committed by Steve Jobs, or that Facebook executives wouldn’t cover up something Zuckerberg did, you are fooling yourself. Yes, this exact situation, a cover up of child abuse, will likely never arise, but organizations cover up serious things all the time for a variety of reasons.
You are also forgetting how all of this started. The first report of showering was investigated by the DA, who decided no charges would be brought. They likely force Sandusky to retire given that the whole thing was terrible PR, and involved very questionable behavior. Paterno, et al., did much of what they should have during this particular incident. The mistakes were allowing him to have emeritus status, and not informing Second Mile and other relevant parties of the accusations. Once they take that somewhat understandable half measure, they are arguably complicit in the future actions of Sandusky. That slippery slope is, IMO, what lead to coverups and inaction far more than trying to “protect football”.