Frankly, given what was going on at PSU, I think the punishments listed in bold are still too light. I would have been fine giving them a 5 year death penalty and let them try to rebuild with that legacy.
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Teddy
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The death penalty needs reform. A lot of people unassociated with a school suffer, lose money and other kinds of damages, when no games are played.
Like Penn St. should have lost all scholarship season one with one fourth being restored each of the next four years. But make them play. A lot of ex HS players would love to walk on and play for a Big Ten team. Like, if they cancel a game with Iowa, we lose the gate, our vendors lose all their money for the game, the folks that rent their yards for parking lose several hundred dollars or so. The little sick kids don't get to do the wave, etc...
Hold the sick bastards to the their contract but make them play with walk-ons for the next four years.
kicker22
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Only issue I have is did the penalty fit the crime (or no crime) in this situation. Noah Shannon did not break the law, but bet on another team at Iowa (who wouldn't bet on Clark and the Hawks) and got suspended for an entire season. Yet Brandon Miller can provide a teammate with a handgun that is used to murder a women and received absolutely no suspension from the NCAA. I agree it may be apples and oranges, but shows the deficiencies within the NCAA and in my opinion that is a crime in itself.
Teddy
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It's the need for a line somewhere. Hard to fix a line but I guess prohibiting athletes from wagering where they would have the greatest chance of inside knowledge e.g. their own school is the place to draw it.
It certainly tells the world the double standard that exists in the NCAA. You'd think a conspiracy to commit murder would draw an immediate suspension with or without a criminal charge.
kicker22
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I agree that him betting on Iowa basketball definitely creates an opportunity for getting inside knowledge of what's going on within the program and I feel that a line should be drawn, but at the same time I don't see how any governing agency maintains any credibility making a season long suspension in a gambling probe that targets only two universities when they looked the other way and did absolutely nothing to Miller. Hell I'd go as far as to say that the athlete's involved deserve a lesser punishment then Harbaugh did, but yet Harbaugh somehow got a 3 game self imposed suspension while Shannon's sitting out a year for wagering on women's basketball. Something definitely reeks of bullshit.
