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[QUOTE="Symphony Steve, post: 319110, member: 911"]
Regardless of whether or not we deem the penalties to be sufficiently harsh, I don't see that program ever being the same. The idea that some rich alums will just pony up the bucks makes little sense to me b/c they're not gonna get any kind of control for their $$'s, and we're talking a LOT of dollars. There will now be a permanent fissure between the Cult of Paterno and Everybody Else which can never be resolved. 50 years from now, they'll still be fighting over it. Which raises another question: To what degree will the faithful who took that trip every home weekend for 40 years continue to do so when Paterno has been scrubbed from the history? The history is being rewritten with White-Out as we speak. I also don't see the continuing influx of Pa's best players to Happy Valley. They don't have Ol' Joe to roll out there any more to impress impressionable youngsters. And they DO want to go to bowl games and compete for league championships, something I don't think they'll be able to do for a few years.
 
I, for one, am fine with a multi-year bowl ban,a meaningful football scholarship reduction, and some serious oversight. I'd like more, of course, but I think that both the school and the program have a long way to go before there will be any return to normalcy, especially as it pertains to being a football power.
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