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NCAA is not a court of law - it is a voluntary association. If they don't want to be a part of it and don't like the way they do things, and especially don't like the judgment for their blatant inactivity and lack of institutional control that allowed for decades long child molestation THEY ARE FREE TO IGNORE THE NCAA.

Ryan McCombie and anyone talking about “due process” is as ignorant as when someone saying private action like a boycott (or criticism) in response to what someone said is a violation of free speech.

Typical of Penn State. Self righteous and ignorant.

NCAA is not a court of law - it is a voluntary association.

So the death penalty that they threatened is voluntary as well???

anyone talking about “due process” is as ignorant as....

So then the NCAA doesn't have to abide by their by-laws??? Are they afraid of what a full open investigation would turn up???

The NCAA is a voluntary association. However, when schools enter into agreement with NCAA, both the schools and the NCAA sign an agreement to the by-laws. The NCAA clearly violated their own by-laws in their punishment of Penn State. Penn State’s President Erickson clearly violated Penn State by-laws by agreeing to write a check to the NCAA without BOT approval. Mark Emmert does not have “Roger Goodell” power to punish teams as he pleases. Nobody cares that he stepped over his bounds, not because an NCAA rule was violated (it wasn’t), but because the crime Sandusky committed was so heinous. Self-Righteous? The only self-righteous people in this matter are the ones who continue bashing Joe Paterno over the head with a shovel in this matter. The NCAA had as much authority to punish Penn State athletics here as they would have to punish Notre Dame or Boston College for the Catholic priest scandal.