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I watched your link--maybe this is worse for them, especially if they ban them from scholarships and bowl games for multiple years. They won't be able to recruit any kind of decent talent, and the program will go back to local kids playing football because they love the game, vs. the financial machine it is now.
And some apologists still act like Paterno had no significant influence at that school. Horse hockey, the man was more powerful than the President of the United States in that town.
+1....It is ignorance and it is sad to see. There needs to be a very strong punishment to send a message.
Be interesting to see the home made signs of the home team fans when Penn State plays away games.
If they can't recruit or offer scholarships, or play bowl games, they aren't going get talented players, even from Pennsylvania--those kids will go where they can get a free education and a chance to be seen by pro recruiters. That will make Penn State a team of walk ons. That actually brings college athletics back to what it should be--kids playing for the love of the game. When Tom Osbourne was head coach here at Nebraska (now he's back as athletic director after our program was nearly destroyed) and now again under coach Bo Pelini, the philosophy was and is again that every walk on has the same opportunity as the recruits--no matter how you get there, if you can play ball well, you get to play. If Penn State receives the sanctions that are suggested, I would hope that the home team fans that they play would be classy enough to understand that the kids and coaching staff of Penn state next season are there because they love the game, and not because they're being paid to be there to support a political and financial empire that covered up children being raped in order to protect their image. It makes a difference.
It's more than just business's, the football program supports other sports, scholarships etc.
That's what nobody wants to look at...they don't see all the good that's done with $$ from the football program and how many PEOPLE will be adversely affected.
For them, it's all about some sort of twisted vengeance..which does nobody any good.
That's what nobody wants to look at...they don't see all the good that's done with $$ from the football program and how many PEOPLE will be adversely affected.
For them, it's all about some sort of twisted vengeance..which does nobody any good.
Universities should be first and foremost about education, not sports. And when a university covers up the rape of children for the sake of their football program, that should be recognized as testament to something much more than misplaced priorities, in fact.
That's what nobody wants to look at...they don't see all the good that's done with $$ from the football program and how many PEOPLE will be adversely affected.
For them, it's all about some sort of twisted vengeance..which does nobody any good.
YOu mean like the little kids that were adversely affected?
That's what nobody wants to look at...they don't see all the good that's done with $$ from the football program and how many PEOPLE will be adversely affected.
For them, it's all about some sort of twisted vengeance..which does nobody any good.
It's not "twisted vengence"--it's the only way to make them accountable, and to send a message to other college programs that they aren't above the law, and that behavior like this will be dealt with harshly. The Penn State program put profit and public relations above protecting little boys in the community from being RAPED. When they knew and did nothing, they allowed it to continue to happen to numerous other little boys. If the business community of Penn State is hurt, then maybe they'll start requiring some accountability from the university that they support and benefit from. You can't just slap people on the wrist for stuff like this because it hurts the local economy--otherwise nothing changes and people know they can get away with this type of behavior.
"The NCAA will not levy the so-called 'death penalty' against Penn State, a source familiar with the case tells CNN, but there will be 'significant, unprecedented penalties' that are 'well beyond what has been done in the past.' . . . NCAA President Mark Emmert and Ed Ray, the chairman of the executive committee, will attend the news conference. Earlier this week, Emmert said he 'never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university.'"
Well this is an interesting infographic. Disregard the maker, the actual sources are solid.
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