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Message: [QUOTE="Crusty, post: 313437, member: 2265"] [FONT=arial]Mark Schlabach | ESPN.com makes the case for sanctions: [/FONT][url]http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8160717/college-football-penn-state-nittany-lions-earned-wrath-ncaa[/url] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][FONT=arial]"If Ohio State can't play in a bowl game this season because former Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel lied to NCAA investigators about his players' receiving free tattoos, how can Penn State play in the postseason after former coach Joe Paterno helped cover up the horrific actions of a serial child rapist?[/FONT][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][FONT=arial]Former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigation found fault with the enitre Penn State culture.[/FONT][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][FONT=arial]If North Carolina can't play in the postseason this season because some of its players received improper benefits from agents and committed academic fraud, how can Penn State be eligible for the postseason after its former president and vice president, athletic director and legendary coach fostered a culture in which a pedophile used the school's facilities, sideline passes to games and bowl trips like candy to lure the young boys he molested?[/FONT][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][FONT=arial]And if USC was banned from the postseason for two years and lost more than 20 scholarships because the school failed to oversee the compliance of its most high-profile players, how can Penn State go unpunished by the NCAA when the university's most-high ranking officials failed to even do what was morally right when they learned young boys were violated and the victims and others were probably still at risk?"[/FONT][/INDENT] [FONT=arial]Maybe I am wrong but I think PSU still doesn't get it. Trustees chairwoman Karen Peetz:[/FONT] [INDENT=1][FONT=arial]"The whole topic of Joe Paterno being honored or not being honored is a very sensitive topic," Peetz said. "We believe that with the report's findings, this is something that will continue to be discussed with the entire university community."[/FONT][/INDENT] [FONT=arial]When asked if the football program had too much power President Rodney Erikson said:[/FONT] [INDENT=1][FONT=arial]"We should be careful that we don't paint the entire football program over a long period of time with a single brush. "This particular tragedy happened within the football program, but it could have happened in many other places. These things happen in schools, they happen in churches, they happen in youth camps all over. The question is really, were there aspects about the football program that allowed some of these things to continue on? We will certainly look at that." Erickson added that football is "an important part of our whole educational process here."[/FONT][/INDENT] [FONT=arial]Football is an important part of our whole educational process? [/FONT][FONT=arial]The only reason for college athletics is that athletic competition builds character and teaches sportsmanship. (I realize that money has now corrupted everyone.) [/FONT][FONT=arial]PSU is a football program masquerading as a university.[/FONT] [FONT=arial]Erikson seems to be another mindless PSU enabler.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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