Posted on 07/22/2012 8:32:31 AM PDT by John W
Tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. in Indianapolis, the NCAA will reportedly announce how it intends to punish Penn State following its handling of the the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The penalties have been termed "unprecedented" and will be leveled at both the school itself and the football program.
According to Armen Keteyian, a source had "never seen anything like it."
Things are happening quickly, now.
This form of punishment is akin to that of your 3rd grade teacher when she punished the entire class for one paper airplane. Totally unfair to thousands of people who had zilch to do with this. Prosecute those who knew. Fine them. Tar and Feather them, whatever. Why stick it to the whole state?!
Personally, I don't much care what the NCAA does or doesn't do to Penn State. The NCAA, along with the entire culture of college football, has been so thoroughly discredited and tarnished over the years that this Sandusky affair has barely even been on my radar screen.
Like USC? There was a perfect example of the misuse of a death penalty. The people hurt the most were students that were in high school when Reggie Bush was getting freebies from agents.
The football program will be sanctioned severely. The NCAA always metes out the worst penalties for “lack of institutional control.” If ever there was a situation that fit that description, this is it.
The appropriately-named Mike McQueary will serve as an object lesson for everyone in college football from this point forward. The next simpering @sshole assistant coach who walks into a room and finds a fellow member of the coaching staff raping a young boy will move mountains to keep his career prospects intact -- even if it means killing the bastard right there on the spot.
How very ignorant of you. My children attended the Harrisburg campus. There’s absolutely no way they or thousands of others would now about what was going on in administration. You don’t punish them you punish the ones who break the rules.
Uhhh, no.
The NCAA Board of Directors is made up of Univeristy Presidents/Chancellors.
When Vicky Triponey tried to get the criminal acts of Penn State football players treated as criminal acts she was hounded out of town by the entire city: random death threats, acts of vandalism, 'For Sale' signs posted on her lawn.
The entire community must pay the price of silence.
ESPN is reporting no death penalty, but a combination of scholarship losses, bowl prohibitions, and other penalties that, in the aggregate, may make a one-year death penalty look less severe.
Even worse.
No doubt about that, but I am not so quick to damn him without knowing his level of understanding of the situation. I also don’t want to bejudged by a single event or issue in my life. It hust seems a little unfair to me IMHO, but I do understand your perspective here. My issue is the NCAA getting involved.
And on another note, I doubt it will curb future abuses. Do you really think that Sandusky would have decided against raping boys if he would have only realized he might bring down an institution? Same with the people who covered for him. Instead, it was exactly the opposite. Their fear of bringing down the institution prompted them to cover for him.
In the end, it is always about individuals, and their faulty thinking, and their selfish evil. Destroy them, and let the institutions they perverted be overtaken by good people who create good because they have to overcome the evil that is associated with their name.
I didn't even address what the NCAA’s jurisdiction is. I don't care.
I said that this approach is meant to get people angry at the wrong people and punish the wrong people. It attacks people who had nothing to do with Sandusky and people who didn't know Sandusky. It goes after people who are completely innocent. If it is shown that people were involved with Sandusky go after them. If people were innocent leave them alone. It is as simple as that.
And that’s where I come down on this. Too many at PSU and in the community were willing to look the other way, as long as Paterno kept up their records.
The program should be demolished.
And that’s where I come down on this. Too many at PSU and in the community were willing to look the other way, as long as Paterno kept up their records.
The program should be demolished.
If that’s true, then it sounds like they’re turning Penn State into a Division II program for a while.
I agree that people should be held accountable but what did the students and athletics, who had no clue what was going on, do to deserve to be punish along with those who are responsible?
If a professor of Physics were a child buggerer would the close the department and fire it’s chairman?
BUMP what you said.
Exactly correct.
The entire community must pay the price of silence.”
I am not familiar with this case. However, if people were involved in criminal acts I believe they should be prosecuted. If people illegally harassed or assaulted an innocent woman I believe they should be prosecuted. I don't believe everyone in a community should “pay the price”.
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