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Laura Lovins, center, a Penn State University sophomore from State College, Pa., reacts while watching a television on the main campus as the NCAA sanctions against the school's football program were announced July 23.
Penn State fans, students, faculty and alumni reacted Monday to crippling NCAA sanctions levied against the school’s football team.
Ed Ray and Mark Emmert of the National Collegiate Athletic Association hold a press conference to discuss measures against for Penn State University's football program in the wake the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
NBC News reports: The fines and loss in revenue totaling roughly $73 million — a $60 million fine from the NCAA and the loss of $13 million in Big Ten bowl revenue, all of which will go to charities to benefit victims of child sex abuse — as well as the four-year bowl ban drew a majority of the headlines, but it was two other provisions in the sanctions that have the potential to damage the Nittany Lions for the long haul.
First and foremost, the Nittany Lions were stripped of dozens of scholarships, beginning next year, over the next four years, as well as a cap on the number of scholarship players on its roster beginning in 2014.
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Meh,
Boo hoo. Now that everyone knows that PU football made over three quarters of a BILLION DOLLARS in the years since they covered up the rape of children, we have a measure of what they will need to be paying to each and every victim of the coverup.
The NCAA had to discipline Penn State Football because the program and the university failed to discipline themselves. People knew what was going on but rather than take action they chose to try and cover it up and hope that it just disappeared on its own.
Some people want to argue that the NCAA has no business issuing sanctions on Penn State Football because this is a criminal matter. Well, they're right...in an ideal world, the NCAA has no business getting involved in this matter.
...then again, in an ideal world, football coaches don't rape kids.
included in the list of people who covered this up is PA State Governor Tom Corbett. As PA State attorney General he chose not to investigate further the charges of sex abuse by Sundusky. Instead he chose to focus on prosecuting the state congressman for misuse of government resources to further their re-election campaigns. This made a better campaign story as he ran for governor than going after Sandusky and Penn state. More importantly he liked the campaign contributions from Second Mile. We need to include ALL participants in this investigation staring with Corbett
The current Governor and the Current Attorney General are probably busy burning, shredding and hiding documents which might incriminate them in the matter. From ten years ago when they had different roles in this terrible, horrific situation. Just thinking OUT LOUD !
Anyone wondering what happened to the Prosecutor who 'disappeared' and his computer hard drive was NOT in the computer found in a nearby river with his auto?
Naah... this is PENN STATE.. where they prepare a daily agenda they want GOD to implement.
Still waiting for the arrest of Sandusky's wife. The Stepford Wife needs to be charged as an accessory.
The buck should have stopped (or started) with Paterno...he is to blame for not stopping Sandusky...he enabled him for another 10 years. Paterno is just as guilty as Sandusky...He (they) conspired to protect Penn State football and sacrificed dozens of young boys in the process. They need to take this punishment and shut up.
They are very lucky they were not given the Death Penalty, which was deserved. Paterno and his crew were guilty of turning their backs for the sake of reputation and money while innnocent young boys were raped and brutalized in their own shower rooms. Shame on those that say the university did not deserve the punishment. Shame
Paterno is dead. And explain to me how this punishment is deserved by current members of the football team and the faculty, students, athletes, and local businesses that will suffer accordingly.
Shame on YOU, buddy. You are about as inconsiderate as they come but I took a page out of your playbook and decided to "not give a damn" about Penn State and the idiots who go there. Screw them all!
Based upon your snarky comment it is clear that you would not understand the rational which led to the 'punishment' of Penn Sate.
These crimes occurred under the Penn State umbrella and, once even the hint of wrongdoing came up, they were under the obligation to investigate and take steps to prevent and stop any abhorrent behavior. But nobody did anything. Instead, everything was brushed aside by those too scared to soil the sacred football world and its heroes.
None of the Penn State students, faculty and staff can argue against these sanctions. Thanks to the cowardly actions of a few, the entire school has earned this punishment... and, hopefully, has learned a lesson about what happens when you ride to your victories on the backs of innocent victims.
The longer PSU supporters drag this out, the worse they look. They have bragged for decades about being "holier than anybody else" and putting real life ahead of football. And, when their alma mater, and football god, were shown to be just another bunch of CYA bureaucrats and "protect the program at any cost" bosses, the alumni act like any other "football college" fans (when their winning coach is discovered getting free tennis shoes for the team, or betting on a game)! They should have been leading the demands that the mess be cleaned up, that the football program be torn down, and reassemnbled at some later date, (based on that vaunted PSU Ethos), and that any campus honors (including the name on the main library) glorifying anyone who looked the other way, (and let the rapes go on), be removed. Folks, your honor is at stake here. And, all you can think about is wins and loses in a record book? You PSU alumni, are truely pathetic.
Paterno died as the most winningest coach. Meh. Punish everyone. Who cares? I don't give a crap about Penn State. I think it is hilarious.
I am torn about the punishment towards the foot ball team and its students, but I am not torn about the amount of fines against the University itself. Let me explain to all the naysayers. At times people and institutions have to take responsibility for their actions and the actions of the people which govern such institutions. As a survivor of male rape and sexual assault from a pedophile the damage is forever! Don't be fooled no amount of money will cure, heal, fix, and repair the damage of rape and sexual assault. If anything Sandusky got off easy and should of been sentences to DEATH after years of predatory behavior in which higher ups kept silence about to protect him and the schools reputation instead of worrying about innocent young men being raped and sodomized. I have survived many years entrapped with a pedophile and let me tell you the damage done to these men breaks my heart. The silence of Penn State brass did this to themselves. How dare they keep silent when a sexual predator is roaming the hallways of a University. I do not feel sorry for the school and the sanctions posed on them, does anyone care about these men that were raped and sodomized in the very lockers rooms of Penn State. If anything, the students of Penn State should transfer out, as a college graduate myself I would not want a degree from an institution that allowed a sexual predator to roam, molest and rape boys. If I had my way I would raze the entire campus of this shame that will forever tarnish Penn State. Sandusky sits in jail eats and sleeps, I say he should of been charged with the death sentence because as a survivor that's how if feels on a daily basis.
All the men that covered up the abuse should be charged as Sandusky was, they acted in silence and are complicit in a horrific crime of abuse. I say its time to raise the stakes and put tougher laws on the books, Pedophiles and sexual predators (if found guilty) should get the death penalty ! I tell all the students of Penn State TRANSFER OUT DON'T GET A DEGREE FROM AN INSTITUTION WHICH IS NOW UNDER THE DARK CLOUD OF SEXUAL ASSAULT raze the entire campus to the ground!! I wait to hear about the fate of those who covered up the abuse and kept silent. I hope they all are put in jail. What if it was your son that was a victim of Sandusky and Penn State officials silence would you feel different then?
Sports, politics, climate change research, economic policy - follow the money. Sandusky/Paterno could not be touched because of the enormous amount of money college football generates for the highly ranked football Universities which benefits the head coaches.
There is a reason that winning coaches are paid in the millions.
Joe was paid over one million bucks each year plus PERKS. Like shower room use ?
Crippling my ass. This is a university, not a sports mill. This is an opportunity to refocus on what this institution is supposed to be. Put the junk in storage with the statue of the demigod.
PENN STATE: GET!!! A!!! LIFE!!!
It seems that the football team will suffer at Penn state. But lets not focus away from the real
perpetrator Jerry Sandusky himself he needs to be accountable for his actions and if his wife
knew of these acts she also needs to be accountable.
Of course she did. She knew. She knew !
Prison time for her NOW !
my apologies Geo...I posted the same remarks before I read your comment which was already here...
I understand everyone's thoughts towards this issue, but just because a report came out from a person who is being investigated by the fbi himself, i wouldn't take everything that was in that report as truth. He already was found to manufacture reports...... I think that by placing those types of sanctions on an instituition with out doing any investigation, besides the "Freeh report" is ridiculous. its all about due process and unfurtunitly there wasn't any. All of you people that are crucifing Penn State are speaking on emotion. I'll give you an example look at the terrible shooting that took place in Colorado. A guy goes in and starts shooting kids and he still gets his day in court. DUE PROCESS!!!! I am not condoning what happened at Penn State but i do believe that the penalties that were given were based off of the out cry of the nation and not because the correct steps were followed. Also besides people that live in PA or went to Penn State, the majority of the rest of the country already hated Penn State. During this entire ordeal, there is just a lot of things that just aren't adding up...... Look at the situation deeper than just what you see on tv.
Good for you louis2384 for being a rare voice of common sense and rationality. Almost all of the posters here come off as a ranting mob. Justice does not come from mobs.
Here's a scenario: the current president, realizing that Joe Paterno is dead and cannot defend himself, for his own reasons, decides that the best interests of Penn State lie in deemphasizing sports. He therefore totally accepts the Freeh report, whose results he probably encouraged, with no contest whatever. So he is being a politician -- big surprise -- and turning his back on the search for the truth.
Everyone in Pennsylvania deserves far better than this. We all deserve a long careful unbiased investigation, with cross examinations. That's what courts are for, which is where this all should have gone, not to some self appointed small committee at the NCAA.
I TRUELY think that unless his wife can PROOVE via a medical report, that they could not have children..she should be brought into the charges....I can't fathom she did NOT know!! She MUST be already being looked into vigorously.....my god what a media frenzy THAT would be!My heart aches for the abused (now adult) kids...and also the college students who held high hopes for a great boost on their resumes' .Shame on the trustees back then...THIS is your LEGECY . Douche Bags All!
I think a far more appropriate punishment would have been the death penalty for the same amount of years as the cover up lasted. For those who think the current students are being punished for something they didn't do, I agree. BUT, Penn State's crime was so heinous it doesn't matter.
So we should punish people who had nothing to do with a crime? Sounds like old fashioned blood lust and feuding. Not the way to run a society.
4 years,ya right,it wont go 4 years,we're talking about millions of dollars spent in the Penn State community.Maybe a year before it all blows over and the cash need will stop the process.Other than the victims of this dirtbag(which is most important),the students and atheletes will suffer the most punishment for something they have no part in.
If Penn State was done wrong, it wasn't by the NCAA. It was Paterno, and the rest of the CYA bureaucrats who looked the other way for years, while the crimes went on, that did everybody wrong! And, they were able to keep it up, because a winning football team brought in tens of millions$$$. Now, they are desperate to find some shelter. "Think of all the innocent people who will be hurt!", they say. (Would they use that logic to free a bankrobber from prison, just because his wife and children were homeless and hungry?? Well, would they??) The good players won't be hurt by this (they'll land jobs elsewhere), the former players are grown up enough to know that nobody cares about some game from a decade ago, the students, were let down by Joe Paterno, and crew, as were the local businesses, etc. PSU's alumni and supporters are grasping at straws, and embracing faulty logic in trying to justify treating a winning football coach, like a god.
What would you folks be saying if it were any other U, besides PSU? You'd clearly see what everybody else sees here! PSU allowed young boys to be raped for years, on its property, and did nothing! You defenders are the emotional ones. You are so blinded by this discovery that this god of yours had feet of clay (or, worse really) that you quibble about meaningless debating points!
Gods die hard. You are still grieving. Well, grow up, get over it, get on with life. You adjusted to a world without an easter bunny, and a tooth fairy. You'll adjust to this. And if you folks ever decide to stand up and really put football in its place (it really is just a little kids' game), as University of Chicago did (after years of winning teams, and a couple of national championships), you may even gain a little respect and admiration from the rest of us.
College and University coaches are all paid as if they are gods, and the schools hand out how many free rides, 4 year scholarships for players? And the cost of all those trips... Most schools actually don't come out ahead in the end, according to one national sports reporter- only about 2%.This part of the whole financial income and outgo of the total program is not transparent and for a reason. The school should be focused on academics. Football is not going to change the world or help us meet the crisis of climate change ahead, for example. The amount of money being lavished on Paterno and Sanduskey was also their protection, in a way.Why are coaches paid more than a college president? Money is power, and monsters know that better than anyone. Than there is irrational worship... and more money. Absolutely the college contributed to the whole sick culture that gave him such an avenue to commit these horrible acts against children. So does every other college with a big-name team. That kind of money and knee-jerk sports worship is a bad combination. The students and scholarships, they are mere units of dollars and thats is why they are expendable. Haven't you all seen in the news how colleges have been selling themselves to students while avoiding the total four year student loan costs?--I mean for the kids going into academics....
why is it that the students who were victimized by these %%%%$%$%$##@ are being punished?And the students who are enrolled now,the victims who were beyond brave to stand up and bring this to light to be delt with,
take down statue ,take away winning record ,,the statue yes,but the record,unless I am missing something ,these victims are being punished,the victims and the other students are really the people who won the games and established the win record,soooooo lets punish them and not the real perpetrators,the cover ups,and the look the other wayers,
Atheltete have been "passed" regardless of grades for a VERY log time. Penn State, is no different. Ya want to go "pro" go to Penn man!! The college NEEDS to be brought to their kneeas ( and to be blunt...just like Sandusky made "his" kids do) Colleges should be monitored closely for "passing atheletes"( regardless of grades) background checks on employees in ALL areas...and students as well. WTF , they are paying through the nose for a certificate that ultimately doesn't pay off anyway due to the economy!