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NCAA imposes stiff penalties on Penn State
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | July 23, 2012 | Jeremy Roebuck

Posted on 07/23/2012 8:24:17 AM PDT by Zakeet

College sports' governing body today suspended Penn State's football team from postseason bowl play for four years and fined the university $60 million for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

The team also must vacate all wins from 1998 through 2011.

"The career record of former head football coach Joe Paterno will reflect these vacated records," the NCAA said in a statement. "Penn State must also reduce 10 initial and 20 total scholarships each year for a four-year period. In addition, the NCAA reserves the right to impose additional sanctions on involved individuals at the conclusion of any criminal proceedings."

The fines are to be paid into an endowment for non-university programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims, the NCAA said.

"The NCAA recognizes that student-athletes are not responsible for these events and worked to minimize the impact of its sanctions on current and incoming football student-athletes," the statement said. "Any entering or returning student-athlete will be allowed to immediately transfer and compete at another school. Further, any football student-athletes who remain at the university may retain their scholarships, regardless of whether they compete on the team."

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; coverup; homosexualagenda; ncaa; pennstate; sandusky
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To: Zakeet
Joe Pa is now known as Joe Ped.
As in Pedophile enabler.
2 posted on 07/23/2012 8:27:58 AM PDT by DeaconRed (My vote in Nov will be dictated by my extreme hatred for ZERO and what he is doing to our country.)
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To: Zakeet

And that’s the end of PSU as a football power, probably for decades.


3 posted on 07/23/2012 8:28:40 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
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To: Zakeet

I don’t like the fine. I think the rest of it is ok, but I don’t understand the fine. The victims are going to sue (rightfully so), and every cent the school has should go to them. Just my own opinion.


4 posted on 07/23/2012 8:29:33 AM PDT by USMCWife6869
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To: Zakeet

Guess the Big Ten is pleased they hitched their wagon to this star.

BTW, Paterno is getting a bum rap. (MO)


5 posted on 07/23/2012 8:29:53 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Zakeet

I don’t understand the wins being vacated. What do they mean, all wins struck from the record as if the games never happened?


6 posted on 07/23/2012 8:30:38 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Zakeet

I am no Penn State fan (and my alma mater, UNC, has troubles of its own with the NCAA), but I don’t see why the NCAA has jurisdiction in this particular case. I understand that football coaches are involved, but does this really involve the football program in any real way? Now, I believe Penn State is accontable for these terrible actions and failures to act. I just don’t believe that the NCAA is the right body to deal with it.


7 posted on 07/23/2012 8:30:41 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Zakeet
If the $60 million isn't being given to child abuse prevention charities then the NCAA is as guilty as Penn State in profiting off of Sandusky.
8 posted on 07/23/2012 8:30:41 AM PDT by apillar
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To: traderrob6

IIRC, the BIG10 may be penalizing PSU also.

It’s a shame that the football players will suffer from these sanctions.


9 posted on 07/23/2012 8:32:18 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Zakeet

I would have liked to have seen a 2-year ‘Death Penalty’ but I wasn’t expecting a four year bowl ban but that’s cool too.

JoePa got taken away what he wanted most...the win record. ‘Success with Honor’ what a crock that was.


10 posted on 07/23/2012 8:32:18 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Zakeet

Justice.


11 posted on 07/23/2012 8:32:18 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: traderrob6

No, “bum rap” sounds more like what Sandusky liked to give to little boys.


12 posted on 07/23/2012 8:32:50 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: NCLaw441

Head coach covers it up? Other coaches know.

Yes. That’s the football program and a breach of the public trust and conduct expected from any adult, much less one entrusted to train and teach young men.


13 posted on 07/23/2012 8:34:23 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: traderrob6
I guess everyone except JoePa is entitled to due process.
14 posted on 07/23/2012 8:34:30 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: apillar
From the article:
The fines are to be paid into an endowment for non-university programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims, the NCAA said.
15 posted on 07/23/2012 8:35:09 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: USMCWife6869

“These funds must be paid into an endowment for external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims and may not be used to fund such programs at the university,”


16 posted on 07/23/2012 8:35:35 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: DeaconRed

Somewhere Rene Portland is laughing her tail off.


17 posted on 07/23/2012 8:36:12 AM PDT by rwilson99 (Please tell me how the words "shall not perish and have everlasting life" would NOT apply to Mary.)
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To: apillar
From the article:

"The fines are to be paid into an endowment for non-university programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims, the NCAA said. "

18 posted on 07/23/2012 8:36:31 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: USMCWife6869; apillar

The money will be going to help abused children, not lining the NCAA’s pockets. I believe the NCAA is acting with its bylaws by fining them.


19 posted on 07/23/2012 8:36:31 AM PDT by EEGator
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This is “stiff”?

“Stiff” would be “Shut down the Department of Athletics for a decade”.

Which would be well-deserved.


20 posted on 07/23/2012 8:36:31 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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