"Unprecedented" penalties against Penn State

[adman]

Breaking from CNN: $30 million in fines.

With $1+ Billion in endowment is that really any sort of financial punishment? A third of a single year football budget perhaps?

[UNT90]

Yeah, I'm sure the Penn State players will be lining up to transfer to North Texas.

If they are from this area, and not a starter, or no one else has room, quite possibly.

[NT03]

Bring home D'Anton Lynn for his senior season. He comes in starts and goes into draft next April. Would be a perect fit

[golfingomez]

Unprecedented Penalties= Todd Dodge is their head coach until he decides to leave... he has a base salary of $15 Million a year...

you still want football PSU?

[emmitt01]

Unprecedented Penalties= Todd Dodge is their head coach until he decides to leave... he has a base salary of $15 Million a year...

you still want football PSU?

Nope. They already said the death penalty wouldn't be imposed.

[UNT90]

Breaking from CNN: $30 million in fines.

Bucket, meet drop.

[Harry]

Keep an eye on their top recruit, the #1 Tight end prospect in the country -- if he bails it might be rats off a sinking ship: http://blog.pennlive.com/patriotnewssports/2012/07/penn_state_recruits_on_edge_an.html

[UNTflyer]

Really?

[UNTflyer]

With $1+ Billion in endowment is that really any sort of financial punishment? A third of a single year football budget perhaps?

I read a tweet that said the university received $240 million in gifts and donations... in June.

[UNTexas]

If they don't get the death penalty then the NCAA officials are worthless political hacks. Sandusky should be hung and everyone who helped cover up the truth should be locked up.

Joe got off lucky too. Everyone involved is human debris.

[UNTFan23]

$60 million dollar fine

4 year bowl ban

Vacate wins between 1998 and 2011

5 year probation

Sounds like there is a scholarship reduction as well; cap is around 65.

[UNTflyer]

[Stan R]

I dunno Flyer. I keep seeing your slap on the wrist posts and I really want to agree with you. Based on the information I've read on this it kind of reminds me of how they got Capone on tax evasion. Yes on the surface it does seem like a slap but if you look at it over the next 5 years it does seem to be devastating (potentially is the key). I agree that the death penalty would have been more obviously terrible to not play football for two years. I'm waiting to see how many players transfer this year. To me if the floodgates open that will feel more like a penalty to watch them lose 75% of games this year.

So what is the crux of your argument/opinion on this because I'm really curious. Do you feel as though since they can play this season they will just have a few "moments of silence", wear some black wristbands and then amp up the pagentry as SliverEagle likes to say and then - life as usual? Do you feel as though to the general public after a couple of games of "remembrance" it will seem as though nothing has happened and the profits will just continue to pile up regardless of sanctions, penalties etc?

To me we won't know if this is a slap or not until at least 2 or more years.

[UNT90]

http://gma.yahoo.com/penn-state-sanctions-outrage-grows-over-112-victories-114424670--abc-news-topstories.html

This program deserved soooo much more. Read the denial in these quotes:

Michael Robinson played for the Nittany Lions from 2002-2005 and went on to play for the San Francisco 49ers.

"Jerry was a sick man," Robinson said. "I just don't think that our program is defined by the actions of one sick individual."

"People are thrown under the bus, institutions are thrown under the bus everyday for the bottom line. This is no different," Penn State alum Eric Bernier told ABC News.

"The wins … we didn't cheat in football, that's unnecessary," Penn State student Alex Gibson said Monday.

Someone needs to tell Eric Bernier that a whole bunch of kids were thrown under the bus for Penn St.'s bottom line. But I doubt he would care.

Edited July 24, 2012 by UNT90

[CMJ]

http://www.wgal.com/news/susquehanna-valley/state/Victim-No-4-s-attorney-talks-about-PSU-sanctions/-/9758860/15655368/-/t4e8fgz/-/index.html#.UA4o4LE5mVo.facebook

[UNT90]

http://www.wgal.com/...LE5mVo.facebook

I'm sure many of the victims were Penn St. fans. Hell, they were raised on Penn St. football (one of the things that Sandusky banked on with his grooming techniques, by the way). The vicitms don't decide the punishment, with good reason.

Many children who are sexually abused by a parent or step-parent love that parent, they just don't like the abuse that the parent inflicts. If many had their way, they would be perfectly ok with the abuser remaining in the home if only the abuse would stop. This is but one reason why the abused never decide punishment. That's done by a judge or jury. Why? Because they decide the societal punishment for the convicted.

In this case, the society is the NCAA, the judge and/or jury is Emmert, and the parent still loved by the victim is the Penn St. football program.

[CMJ]

They aren't kids anymore though....they're all grown men.

[UNT90]

They aren't kids anymore though....they're all grown men.

Grown men ARE children when it comes to college football.

One of the main reasons Penn St. is in this mess.