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[QUOTE="garnermike, post: 320439, member: 798"]
...beyond what happened to the kids abused by Sandusky (and, indirectly, by the parties abetting the cover-up), is the two-faced media.
 
So many in the media had, for years, been criticizing the NCAA for being toothless in confronting the big-time college sports culture, for taking forever to follow its own violations investigative process and to make a sanction decision, and for imposing sanctions that were puzzling and/or meaningless.
 
So what happened after the "45 minutes of PSU infamy" NCAA news conference yesterday, one in which the NCAA wielded a swift sword of sanctions to the gut of one of the major bastions of big time CFB? What happened when the organizing/governing body of collegiate athletics in the U.S. decided "enough is enough," suspends its "normal" process, and empowers its leadership to impose corrective measures fitting the horrendous crime committed by one of its member institutions? 
 
Well, as we've all seen and heard, a substantial amount of the media (including several of the talking heads @ ESPN) lambast the NCAA for working outside of its regular investigative/sanctioning procedures, for imposing sanctions that are simply too harsh (described as worse than the death penalty, by many in the media), and for taking an unnecessary full whack at the image, reputation, and fiber of a top-level college FB program.  
 
I find that I'm switching TV channels and stopping my reading of quite few sports commentaries midstream because I start to gag.
 
Attn: sports media. Can't have it both ways. You either wanted the NCAA to assert itself or you didn't.
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