Questions/thoughts regarding Penn State...

[Cusefan95]

Lots of talk below that Penn State should get the death penalty. I'm curious how Penn State getting the death penalty would affect Big 10 TV contracts/schedules. If it would result in less revenues for other member schools of the Big 10, it's highly unlikely it would happen because there would be way too much political pressure behind the scenes not to apply the death penalty. Honestly I would think almost every school (even those not in the Big 10) would be opposed...Maryland is already struggling to balance their books and won't want to ever risk getting screwed because Miami went so far over the line they got the death penalty (as one example).

Also, how would the "reinstitution" of the program be handled? Back with SMU they had walk-ons playing and getting blown out by Notre Dame...in 2012 the kinds of kids that SMU let play would be leaving Big 10 fields in body bags. There would need to be some serious thought to how the restart the program and get Penn State to a legitimate DI roster immediately. Some poor idiot walk-on that was forced to play because they don't have a full roster in year one getting paralyzed at Michigan would be worse than a disaster for the NCAA.

I don't think any penalty other than the death penalty is appropriate, but I also think it would be opening dozens of cans of worms to do it and the NCAA doesn't have that many fishing poles. If there's no death penalty, I question if there should be any penalty - the risk would be setting an apparent precedent that the penalty for protecting a pedophile = the penalty for Reggie Bush getting paid (or whatever comparison to another sanction the NCAA has handed down fits).

 

[Stern]

They won't get the death penalty and shouldn't. But the program should be punished. YES, I know all the people who did the crimes and the cover-up are gone and you are therefore punishing the innocent, but it still needs to be done.

It's a total lack of institutional control and there should be scholarship hits going forward. Want to ban them from bowl games for a year or two, fine, I don't think that is a big deal like it used to be in the past honestly. But big scholarship hits is the real punishment. You don't shut down the program, screw up TV deals and hurt the rest of the conference, and force the current players who had nothing to do with anything to transfer or ruin their lives, but you severely handicap the program moving forward.

 

[baggerbob]

Thats why Paterno's record should be erased from the record books, he could have prevented all this by being the type of person he pretended to be.

 

[Cusefan95]

Thats why Paterno's record should be erased from the record books, he could have prevented all this by being the type of person he pretended to be.

Under what currently existing NCAA regulations would you justify this? I totally get people wanting "something to be done"...but I'd far rather have JoePa's record stand than to arbitrarily eliminate his record because it makes us feel better. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - societies that choose to eliminate the rule of law in favor of the rule of man never prosper.

 

[rrlbees]

Under what currently existing NCAA regulations would you justify this? I totally get people wanting "something to be done"...but I'd far rather have JoePa's record stand than to arbitrarily eliminate his record because it makes us feel better. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - societies that choose to eliminate the rule of law in favor of the rule of man never prosper.

Read the previously posted NCAA sections on morals and ethics. Paterno ignored and was culpable in possibly the most immoral and unethical acts imaginable over a long period of time. Hopefully the NCAA has the balls to do everything that is just and right and that their letter of investigation given to PedSt under those same sections was not just show.

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[KaiserUEO]

Add up every single dollar that was given to the school since 1998,and make them donate that plus a 30% penalty to an appropriate charity.

Yep, take a billion or so right out of the endowment.

Let the school and their donors decide if they want to keep funding football then.

 

[Crusty]

Put the Death Penalty aside for a moment. What is the appropriate NCAA penalty for PSU? Anyone recall the most severe penalty beside SMU? Miami?

 

[Moontan]

What is the appropriate NCAA penalty for PSU?

5 year bowl ban, banishment of all coaches during the Paterno era (they can coach elsewhere, just not at PSU), 10 year scholarship reduction.

 

[stuckinbig11]

Why should the NCAA have any problem with Penn State? They certainly demonstrated extreme institutional control.