Since it’s really ALL about the money, take that away from them.
Otherwise, there is really no actual punishment for their institutionalized looking the other way.
Close their football program down for at least five years, let them have to earn from the scholastic aspect of the university.
They DO teach something more than football?
Slash coach salaries too**, pay them the same as other instructors, less incentive to sacrifice children for $$$$$$$!
If the football program never recovers it’s former “Glory”, that’s a consequence they have deserved.
And pull down the stinking Paterno statue too!
**Slashing coach salaries should be done everywhere, too many coaches make more than state governors!
They take state funds, so the state should have a say.
If pro-ball wants to continue using the colleges as a farm system, let them put money into the ENTIRE university, not just the pockets of players essentially winning a lottery.
Bad climate science?
“If pro-ball wants to continue using the colleges as a farm system, let them put money into the ENTIRE university, not just the pockets of players essentially winning a lottery.”
Better idea, force all the “pro-ball” teams to take their fat wallets and stay completely out of the collegiate athletic picture. Actually, better still, get rid of collegiate athletics all together. They add nothing to the real mission of a university!
Exactly right — it is ALL about money for PSU. The way to stop this behavior dead, forever, is to kill ALL sports at PSU for 10 years. Bury their athletic programs, fire all the staff, layoff all the administrators, and let the current students transfer without prejudice. After 10 years, PSU can reapply for reinstatement — one sport at a time per year. Sports programs at PSU must die to cure this disease.