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Old 07-23-2012, 06:19 AM   #1
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Default Penn State: NCAA announces major sanctions!

I'm really pleased to see some add'l accountability here (from TMZ):

Penn State Punished $60 MILLION Fine and 4-Year Bowl Ban

Penn State University was just hit with a $60 million sanction by the NCAA for its role in covering up the Jerry Sandusky child rape scandal.

And it gets worse -- or better -- depending for whom you're rooting.

NCAA President Mark Emmert just announced ... PSU will be BANNED from bowl games for the next 4 years. The NCAA will also vacate all PSU football wins from 1998 to 2011.

The elimination of PSU wins will have a dramatic effect on Joe Paterno's all-time carer win record. In fact, he will lose 111 total wins from his record -- dropping him BEHIND Florida State football legend Bobby Bowden and Alabama's Bear Bryant. Paterno will go from #3 all time to #12.

Penn State's football team will also have its football scholarships reduced from 25 to 15 per year for the next 4 years.

All PSU football players are allowed to transfer out of the school to any other school as soon as possible ... while keeping full eligibility. In other words, a PSU player can transfer to Ohio State next season and start immediately.

Football players are also allowed to quit the football team and keep their scholarships while continuing to attend the university in pursuit of a degree.

The PSU athletic program will be on probation for 5 years.

The NCAA said it reserves the right to launch an investigation into individuals to impose even more sanctions, if necessary.

The $60 million fine is equivalent to the football program's gross revenue for 1 season.

The NCAA said the money "must be paid into an endowment for external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims and may not be used to fund such programs at the university."

The NCAA said it considered the "death penalty" -- the elimination of the school's football program for 1 season -- but decided the punishment it chose will have a deeper impact in changing the culture at Penn State.

PSU signed a consent decree -- which means the University is on board with all of the sanctions.

The NCAA explained ... "By perpetuating a 'football first' culture that ultimately enabled serial child sexual abuse to occur, The Pennsylvania State University leadership failed to value and uphold institutional integrity, resulting in a breach of the NCAA Constitution and rules."
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Old 07-23-2012, 06:59 AM   #2
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How this man was allowed to abuse so many for so long while everyone turned a blind eye is incomprehensible. I hope these sanctions do bring about institutional change at Penn State.
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Its good that something is being done to make the more accountable for their shameful actions
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OUCH!!! THAT should get their attention!! Enforcement, with TEETH!! EXCELLENT...and it all was achieved to hammer the ones that deserved to be hammered...the football players were so carefully excised from all the sanctions and allowed to continue their educations, either at PSU or they can transfer with their football "careers" intact....I am glad to see PSUdidnt get all defient and lawyered up and start trying to fight the sanctions....accountability for actions....Important lessons to be taught by the guilty and learned by the students.
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I have followed this very closely as I am a total sports nut! I am so sad for those children (now adults most of them) that were molested for all those years and p*ssed that adults tried to cover it up. I hope this is a wake up call to all those people that think protecting their Universities persona is more important then the safety and welfare of children. I don't know how anyone can argue that the punishment doesn't fit the crime. I could go on and on but I won't. I am just glad that the punishment was so severe, and like everyone else hope this results in change at Penn State as well as people in general. It's time to protect our kids they look to us for that.
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I am in total agreement. Punish the institution and those at fault and anyone who had knowledge of the atrocity and didn't report it is guilty in my book. I read in one of the news reports that the $60 million represented about one year's worth of $$ made from football. WOW I never knew college football was that big of a $$ maker.
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I am very proud the NCAA took a real stand and effectively sent a message about the consequences of a sport's program being more important than those poor children to those men who knew. The good ol' boys club of Penn State Football never gave a second thought to Sandusky's many victims. Makes you shudder to think how many Sandusky's are out there today operating under the same protections of conspiracy of silence and hoping and praying all that has happened will cause everyone to step up to protect victims.
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Wow. I've heard a little about this and have been meaning to read more about it. Think I will do that now.
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As bad as the sanctions may be, I don't think it's enough. This is all about FOOTBALL...a game that the all encompassing love of (and money associated with the sport), caused very intelligent, grown men to cover up the most horrific of crimes - child rape. Nothing will ever repair the damage done to these young men. I still yet don't think the priorities of this university or the NCAA are where they should be in this matter.

Who would want to play football for a university with this reputation? Why don't they just allow the program to die a quiet death...hopefully to fade away as a nightmare does.
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As bad as the sanctions may be, I don't think it's enough. This is all about FOOTBALL...a game that the all encompassing love of (and money associated with the sport), caused very intelligent, grown men to cover up the most horrific of crimes - child rape. Nothing will ever repair the damage done to these young men. I still yet don't think the priorities of this university or the NCAA are where they should be in this matter.

Who would want to play football for a university with this reputation? Why don't they just allow the program to die a quiet death...hopefully to fade away as a nightmare does.
It's all about the sacred sport and the money and egos - those children had miserable lives all those years and in my opinion were sacrificed to the god of football! The sanctions are not strong enough to send the right message !
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As it stand with these type of sanctions the football program just might die a quiet death or at the least not be as big of a part of the University for years to come or possibly ever. If they gave Penn State a 1 year death penalty as it's called that wouldn't have done what these sanctions will do. The problem is less about Football (JMO) and more about the glorification of someone who is simply a man and not a God. I know it started with him being the football coach but to those people in the small town he was more than that which is really sad. I don't come from a small town but have family near Happy Valley and literally you question whether some prayed to Joe Paterno or our Lord and Savior it was that bad. I think the shame in it all is that Joe Paterno isn't here to see all of this....not that I wish sadness on anyone but I wish that he could see what his inactions caused all because he wanted to protect and University, the football program, his horrible defensive coordinator Sandusky and himself instead of those innocent children. I can't even fathom how those poor children felt to know that no one cared enough about their well being. While I wouldn't be opposed to the NCAA completely doing away with the football program I can assure with the sanctions levied it will be a very long time before the University or the football program recovers which is exactly what they deserve.
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The $$$ is nothing - 1 seasons revenue only - a slap on the wrist. Not beling able to do any bowl games for 4 years, now, that might sting? The worst part may be that they will have recruiting problems - who is going to want to play for them?
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And the loss of scholarships will further weed out really good players, as if any would want to go there without the bowls and with the stigma. Problem with what the NCAA did is, as far as I know, no one who committed or covered up the crimes is left at Penn State to endure the sanctions. All the people there now are totally innocent of any wrong doing but hopefully the message sent will reach into some other programs where there may be some similar situations.

Still, any football program with a stadium that seats well over 100,000 people will come back eventually but it won't be the same for the innocent students and supporters of the Nittany Lions for a very long time.

I really wonder how it was that those men involved in this horror story sat on their morality and let that scum go totally unreported, unpunished and even protected him, knowing that pedophiles constantly re-offend until some hard intervention - and most still do even then. It is so hard to fathom that people calling themselves educators allowed the rape of children by one of their own without taking him on personally one by one the moment they learned what he did and then turning themselves and him in!
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Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors Statement on Penn State

(Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors Statement on Penn State - BIG TEN CONFERENCE Official Athletic Site)

July 23, 2012

We must begin first and foremost, by again expressing our great sorrow for all of those whose lives have been so grievously harmed by the series of failures at Penn State University, particularly the lives of the young victims and their families.

Since November 2011, when the underlying indictments were first announced, the Big Ten Conference Council of Presidents and Chancellors (COPC) committed to a prudent, thoughtful and patient review of the various investigative and adjudicatory processes associated with allegations at Penn State University involving Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz and Graham Spanier. In December 2011, Big Ten legal counsel, along with NCAA counsel, engaged in the independent investigation undertaken by Louis Freeh and his law firm, Freeh, Sporkin, & Sullivan, LLP. At that time, the COPC reserved the right to impose sanctions, corrective or other disciplinary measures in this matter in the event that adverse findings were made in the areas of institutional control, ethical conduct and/or other Conference related matters. The COPC also directed the Conference, at that time, to initiate an immediate review of the fundamental issues and systems affecting intercollegiate athletics, including those related to institutional control.

Today, we have read the NCAA release on Penn State University. We note in the release, and have independently confirmed, that Penn State has accepted the factual findings in the July 12, 2012 Report of the Special Investigative Counsel prepared by Louis Freeh and his firm (the Freeh Report). Based on the findings, as accepted by Penn State, we fully support the actions taken by the NCAA. Further, following a thorough review of the Freeh Report, the COPC has voted to impose the following additional sanctions on Penn State, effective immediately:

1. Censure: The accepted findings support the conclusion that our colleagues at Penn State, individuals that we have known and with whom we have worked for many years, have egregiously failed on many levels--morally, ethically and potentially criminally. They have failed their great university, their faculty and staff, their students and alumni, their community and state--and they have failed their fellow member institutions in the Big Ten Conference. For these failures, committed at the highest level of the institution, we hereby condemn this conduct and officially censure Penn State.

2. Probation: The Big Ten Conference will be a party to the Athletic Integrity Agreement referenced in the NCAA release, and will work closely with the NCAA and Penn State to ensure complete compliance with its provisions over the 5 year term of the Agreement.

3. Ineligibility: As referenced in the NCAA release, Penn State's football team will be ineligible for postseason bowl games. It will also be ineligible for Big Ten Conference Championship Games for four years, a period of time that runs concurrently with the NCAA postseason bowl ban imposed this morning.

4. Fine: Because Penn State will be ineligible for bowl games for the next four years, it will therefore be ineligible to receive its share of Big Ten Conference bowl revenues over those same four years. That money, estimated to be approximately $13 million, will be donated to established charitable organizations in Big Ten communities dedicated to the protection of children.

Penn State University is a great institution and has been a valued member of the Big Ten Conference for more than 20 years. Since early November 2011, it has been working very hard to right a terrible wrong. There is more to be done. The intent of the sanctions imposed today is not to destroy a great university, but rather to seek justice and constructively assist a member institution with its efforts to reform. From this day forward, as Penn State continues to make amends, the Big Ten conference and its member institutions will continue to engage with them in every aspect of conference membership.

As a result of the Conference review of issues and systems affecting intercollegiate athletics initiated in December 2011, we recognize that what occurred at Penn State University is a consequence of the concentration of power that can result from a successful athletic program and the failure of institutional leadership to maintain institutional control. We further recognize our own responsibility to insure, within the context of our own institutions, sufficient control and responsibility over our athletic programs. Our review has led to a document entitled Standards and Procedures for Safeguarding Institutional Control of Intercollegiate Athletics that is not yet final, but on schedule to be adopted by the COPC and implemented in the 2012/13 academic year under the auspices and oversight of the COPC.
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I feel bad for all those innocent people who have lost the titles they worked so hard to earn. However, I am overjoyed the NCAA took such a strong stand. This is a message to Penn State and all other college organizations that have glorified football players and coaches for far too long. This will no longer be tolerated!!
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