penn state.

[HawkIMalaise]

This wasn't an on the field issue. This is like saying a school with higher reports of sexual assault on females should get the football team punished even though the football team had nothing to do with it. People should be more ****** about the Oregons and ohio states of the world.

 

[Crimson]

The NCAA is a joke and we may as well tax them.

 

[Hawkeyes1982x]

the NCAA lost any credibility it had with "we can find no wrong doing in the Cam Newton case". It went into the negative with how it handled Rapist Winston. The NCAA is beyond a joke.

That sums it up right there. A joke.

 

[homes]

Whatever the NCAA's rationale for letting Penn State off the mat, all I will read/hear is "blah, blah, blah" - just rationalizing BS.

 

[ssckelley]

This is unbelievable, they let a school off the hook that covered up a child molester. This did not simply involve Sandusky and Paterno but all the way up the administration staff. I thought the original punishment was light and now this. Those of you defending this because of the players, they could have went anywhere else. They knew what they were signing up for when they decided to attend PSU and their rally cry, along with the fans, has been sickening. The bottom line is this, Penn State football makes everyone money from the state of Pennsylvania, the Big Ten, to the NCAA so to hell with the boys and their families that were victims.

 

[LawVHawk]

And look how those transfers did. And look what a travesty has been made of "hardship" transfers. Not to mention The Wisconsin Needs a QB rule.

What happened at PSU was terrible. But don't punish players, students and fans.

Why not? It was the players (past and present), students and fans who put JoePa up on a high pedestal and blindly worshipped at his feet. They made him virtually untouchable to anyone who sought to look into what was going on inside his "storied" program. A lot was covered up even before a low level assistant saw what he saw and reluctantly reported it, only to have many people, including the old man, turn his back on children being abused inside the Penn State football program. In their blind adulation towards Joe Paterno, the players, students and fans were themselves enablers of the ugly things that happened.

It is still disgusting to see the relative lack of compassion and remorse towards the victims being expressed in Happy Valley.

Penn State football deserved the death penalty. The NCAA has once again demonstrated what a bunch of rotten, toothless cowards they really are.

The NCAA deserves to be term-expired.

 

[LawVHawk]

I sincerely wish that the next time the NCAA comes around Iowa City or any B1G campus with a whiff of even the smallest of infractions, the Athletics Department tells them to eff off. It would be great to see the Johnson County Sheriff's deputies escorting them out of town. Or even better throwing them in jail for criminal trespass.

 

[JHHawk]

Remember when their students were tipping over news trucks and rioting to support a coach that protected a child molester? Oh, I guess that doesn't matter anymore... I don't think that the entirety of Penn State deserves to be punished, but Penn state has been fighting any and all NCAA sanctions since the beginning. At some point, somebody in power should have taken some accountability and said, "we deserve this punishment." Both the former and current administration took no accountability whatsoever. This just sends the message that football is more important than any sort of academic or ethical excellence that this Big 10 University supposedly stands for.

The current president should have vocally accepted the sanctions and lambasted anyone blinded by their allegiance to Penn State football.

Actually, PSU has not been fighting against the sanctions....the lawsuit filed was by Jay Paterno and the Family, who are no longer afilliated with PSU.

PSU itself commissioned the investigation by Freeh, and his damning report was accepted by the PSU Trustees and Admin. The NCAA took the unprecedented step of using this outside report as the basis for their sanctions rather than do their own investigation. Nothing about this case is normal for the NCAA....they reached into areas that they normally do not invade. I am convinced that Emmert, head of the NCAA, reacted to public sentiment and went outside his normal purview.

No, PSU did the full mea culpa, and laid themselves bare with their own report, and got hammered by Emmert. I think this early lifting of the sanctions is a tacit concession that the NCAA over-reacted.

Now, the fans? yes, they are bitter and fighting against for the JoePa legacy and they will never give it up.
But, the school did all the correct moves....you cannot penalize them for stubborn deluded fans...if the school has met all their obligations.

 

[NCHawker]

This is complete bunk. Pedo State should have received the death penalty for this, and nothing less. It is far worse than what happened at the schools that got far worse than what Pedo State got. They are a disgrace.

nope. As bad as it was, this was not an NCAA issue. It was a legal issue. It had nothing to do with academic eligibility, competitive fairness, or any other NCAA rule.

 

[74Hunter]

This is complete bunk. Pedo State should have received the death penalty for this, and nothing less. It is far worse than what happened at the schools that got far worse than what Pedo State got. They are a disgrace.

This.

They had a chance to go to schools that didn't cover up for a child molester.

And this.

They pretty much got off Scott free. And this is the worst scandal in the history of sports.