OT: Penn State to renovate showers

[Black]

I'm with Janit.

[Rolando]

SMU got the 'death penalty' for Gambling and bribes, if I remember right, but Penn states gets to say "sorry" and move on? How about a letting all players transfer without losing a eligibility and shutting down the football program for 4 years?

[Dennis S]

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. Almost never are the students and athletes guilty of much. If they cleaned house upstairs, I'm sure a few innocent people would get thrown out, which is not good. So, maybe criminal and civil trials are in order. I don't think many, if any, innocent people would be targeted that way. And the guilty ones would be targeted. I think that would afford the most justice without so much collateral damage. And tear down that statue. Just leave a plaque honoring Paterno's good deeds somewhere on campus.

[Lemon Drop]

Yes, thinking about that a little more, I think the NCAA is in a really bad spot, probably unprecedented. There is nothing they can do to Penn State that would be considered just punishment for what went on there. The type of things they penalize: gambling, recruitment violations, etc., just aren't in the same arena with this type of criminal behavior by coaches and administrators. The NCAA wasn't designed to deal with that.
So probably they do nothing.
The courts and the court of public opinion are going to have to do the work.

[Pops]

Lemon Drop wrote:
The NCAA wasn't designed to deal with that.
So probably they do nothing.
The courts and the court of public opinion are going to have to do the work.

I agree. I don't believe athletic sanctions should be applied in this case. It's a criminal matter. Whole different arena than recruiting violations, coverups of ineligibility, etc.

[Dennis S]

I don't have any names or links, but there was an author on this subject I heard on the radio who said the dynamics of the Penn State and the Catholic Church episodes were almost exactly the same.

[Lemon Drop]

Dennis S wrote:
I don't have any names or links, but there was an author on this subject I heard on the radio who said the dynamics of the Penn State and the Catholic Church episodes were almost exactly the same.

That reminded me of this:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/f...56228106/1

[Seacrest]

Pops wrote:
I don't believe athletic sanctions should be applied in this case. It's a criminal matter. Whole different arena than recruiting violations, coverups of ineligibility, etc.

Of course, if the victims should get so much money in a civil suit(s) that the school can no longer afford to field a football team, well, that would be all right with me.

And I say this as a lifelong Nittany Lions fan.

[Dennis S]

How do you disperse 80-100 athletes to other schools if you shut down the football program?

[RgrF]

Imagine how trapped these kids feel. There are over 60 division one football programs they could join if released from scholarship and signing requirements by Penn State.