Shut down the whole football program? Who’s going to be hurt by this? None of the perpetrators or their enablers. The hoteliers who depend on football weekend business, the restaurant owners, all their student employees, the sweatshirt and souvenir manufacturers and vendors and all of their low-income (and innocent) employees, the kids who work in the stadium, and on and on and on. Thousands of people, mostly young and low-income, dependent on college football related jobs and completely innocent of these crimes, will be adversely affected by cancelling the football season. They didn’t do anything wrong and they don’t deserve to be punished.
Well, I suppose you could make the same argument when other universities knowingly commit recruiting violations. “It’s not fair to take away post-season games, scholarships, etc... It hurts the wrong people.”
These crimes are so despicable & went on for so long with top level approval. How could the NCAA NOT hit them with a death penalty?
But then again, I’ve lost complete trust in NCAA decisions over the decades.
So why didn't Joe P. think of the long term effects of his decision(s) NO LESS THE CHILDREN INVOLVED!!!!
Cry me a freakin' river. I was attending SMU in 1987 when they received the Death Penalty. The majority of the players, boosters and administrators were long gone by the time the penalty kicked in. That is often the case in these situations - people who had nothing to do with the sins endure the punishment. For two years, soccer was our homecoming. Lots of people were hurt for no reason other than a few boosters, with the blessing of the administration, were better at buying players than the rest of the NCAA.
The two years we did not play (we could have played away games only in year 2, but opted against it), allowed the university to clean house and get the priorities straight. THAT is what PSU needs by the truckload.
Stop drinking the Happy Valley kool aid and see how heinous this is. The longer PSU dances around with "investigations" and band aids like painting the showers, the worse the nightmare will get. Go Google "shut down PSU football." I am not alone in my opinion that drastic measures are needed for the nation at large to believe that the university is serious that protecting young boys from being raped in PSU showers and not covering it up when it is discovered, is a little more important than college football. Yes, even in Happy Valley!
Still drinking the Paterno KoolAid
That was why he covered Sandusky's actions up.
You could say the same things about Germany after WWI and WWII.