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   STLDan said, 10 months ago

   I am amazed at the amount of Penn St/JoPa supporters that still whine on comment boards about how they should not be punished and how JoPa did nothing wrong. CHILDREN were raped, JoPa and the heads of the University COVERED IT UP!!! PERIOD!!! If you are that concerned with a sport over the welfare of children you are a sick, sick person!!!!!!!
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   ahab said, 10 months ago

   Students,teachers and alumni are innocent and should not be punished, but are victims of the mistakes made by the football program. Hopefully this might help other programs in the future to put the safety of individuals above the football program. Our nation is focused on football, and not on academics. Athletic stars make millions, our greatest teachers salaries don’t exactly compare do they?
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   Michael wme said, 10 months ago

   @ahab

   Football has great market value in America. Academics has none. True-blue American capitalists follow the money.

   
   And now the socialists want to take this ridiculous action that will hurt profits. As long as they were helping the football program, and the program was profitable, only socialists and communists would want to interfere with some great coaches just because of a minor peccadillo involving young boys.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

   What I don’t get: how can some organization (forgot the name) levy a fine of SIXTY MILLION DOLLARS! Is there a contract that allows that organization to bankrupt any of it’s members? I mean, why not [voice of Dr. Evil] “ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!!!”. What kind of financial dangers are these sport clubs in?

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   Furthermore I can’t agree with striking the points and games from the past. This punishes all the players of that period, and I don’t think they knew what was going on. I don’t know what a fair punishment would look like, but these two actions seem somehow unbalanced to me (but I know nothing about college football, just the NFL Europe)…
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   Molon Labe said, 10 months ago

   Still not enough. Close the football program until the 15th anniversary of the death of Sandusky. That would be appropriate and enough.
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   braindead08 said, 10 months ago

   @MortyForTyrant

   Morty, the organization is the NCAA, the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Member schools all belong to it and agree to abide by its rules. It is a private organization, not govt.
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   Penn St. officials agreed to the conditions very quickly, adding to the belief that they got off relatively easy.
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   The NCAA could have invoked the ‘death penalty’, which is shutting down the football program for a specified number of years. Collateral damage would happen to teams that were scheduled to play Penn St., and some revenues would be lost to the NCAA.
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   Southern Methodist University got the ’death penalty several years ago and has not been a football power since.
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   Officials at USF, the University of San Francisco, invoked the death penalty on its own basketball program when severe violations came to light. I think the program was shut down for about four years.
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   Restarting a football program would be much more of a task than restarting a BB program.
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   Dry said, 10 months ago

   @Michael wme

   I hope you are being sarcastic about the “minor peccadillo involving young boys.”
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   Eryx said, 10 months ago

   @Molon Labe

   “Close the football program until the 15th anniversary of the death of Sandusky. That would be appropriate and enough.” For once, I agree with you.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

   @braindead08

   First of all: thank you for providing insight. But secondly: I still don’t get it! I mean, it’s a college. They all are in the NCAA, I guess. How is it they have $60M, just lying around, to spend on a fine and then think they came of lightly? Aren’t colleges supposed to teach people? How much do they MAKE on this kind of activities? And are they private? Do they get funding, maybe even federal?

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   And why would banning a college from taking part in sports be a “death penalty”? I know the Americans are obsessed with sports, but does that make the college any worse (as a place of education)? Conversely, why is there no NASCAR like organization for colleges? Or hockey? Or Hoolahoop…

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   I still have so much to learn about the United States…
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    Krazy Ig Katz said, 10 months ago

    Sent to the showers….
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    Dry said, 10 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    I wish someone around here could explain this whole mess in reasonable terms. Sadly, we can’t at least I can’t. But there are no terms to describe the horrendous things Jerry Sandusky did, or how the hierarchy covered it up no matter where you live. Doing that to children is just well again no words to describe it. I know if someone did that to my kids, they would be DEAD and I wouldn’t care what the legal system did to me.
    What country are you from?
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    Dry said, 10 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    I wish someone around here could explain this whole mess in reasonable terms. Sadly, we can’t at least I can’t. But there are no terms to describe the horrendous things Jerry Sandusky did, or how the hierarchy covered it up no matter where you live. Doing that to children is just well again no words to describe it. I know if someone did that to my kids, they would be DEAD and I wouldn’t care what the legal system did to me.
    What country are you from?
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    MortyForTyrant said, 10 months ago

    @Dry

    I’m from Germany, and I wholeheartedly agree that Sandusky would be dead and Paterno never again be able to smile after I’m through with him. I was just wondering about college football in general, the money involved and how that mixes with being an “institution of higher learning”. Our universities over here don’t have sport teams, at least not competing ones (in public). Our students are supposed to LEARN, not get their heads kicked in…
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    vwdualnomand said, 10 months ago

    college sports are really a semi-pro farm system. but, what psu did, no apologies, money, or penalties can ever recover those kids’ childhoods. ban all sports at psu. give those scholarships to the best and brightest and needy kids. kick psu out of the conference. 10% surcharge on all psu gear, tickets, etc…the money goes to the victims and charities.
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    Dry said, 10 months ago

    College sports are also supposed to teach team work, honesty and integrity. Values that Joe Paterno espoused, but apparently that was all rhetoric on his part.
    Maybe German colleges have the right idea, MortyForTyrant.
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