NCAA: 'Punitive measures' await (against Penn State

Sounds like a good plan to me. Shutdown ALL college athletics and let the pro teams pay for their own farm clubs. The loss of their cash cows at the NCAA schools would force them to do a reassessment of what's important. That is, are you educating students or providing a no cost farm team for pro sports?

How likely is it? Not in our life times because the universities are addicted to all the money they get from their jockstraps -- like dopers need their methamphetamine. College sports are boob bait for the bubbas and bubbettes.

No, I'm not saying it's not a crime or it's not an NCAA violation.

I'm saying it's adults and it's not the same as raping children.

An adult who willingly engages in gay sex to get playing time is a variation on a prostitute.

Calling her a victim is a bit much. It's no different than a secretary effing her boss for a raise.

The victim in that scenario is the person who didn't engage in the shenanigans, but lost out on playing time or a raise.

Kill the football program forever and turn the stadium grounds into a corn field. Then other schools and officials will get the message.

First of all, that's not going to happen when they have a 100,000+ seat stadium and all the revenue that it generates.

Also, when you now have no one connected with the scandal still at the school - administrators, coaches, players, etc. - when do you say that innocent new people can just proceed with their legal business? There's a time and a place for punishment of the guilty - in the criminal court system. But there has to be a time when the new people do not suffer from the bad actors that proceeded them for crimes that they didn't commit.

What "message" are you talking about? It is highly unlikely that anything close to the sexual molestation of youngsters by coaches has been going on at other schools, and if it has, that coach has likely been dismissed, regardless of how prominent he is. Let's put it this way: coaches have been fired for much less serious criminal or even embarrassing behavior off the field without NCAA intervention.

First of all, that's not going to happen when they have a 100,000+ seat stadium and all the revenue that it generates.

Thank you.

You made my point for me.

They put revenue and the interest of the school first.

Wrong on recruiting..they are having one of their better recruiting years they have had in a while.

Are you talking about the 2012 class or 2013?

What about attrition from the players already there? You would think that more than the usual number are leaving because of the coaching change and the scandal.

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