Paterno Statue Down/PSU Penalties?

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@McMurphyESPN: Penn State says as of now it still plans to leave Tuesday night for Dublin, Ireland
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Due to Penn State’s progress in ensuring athletics dept functions with integrity, NCAA immediately restores football postseason eligibility.</p>— Inside the NCAA (@InsidetheNCAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsidetheNCAA/status/509046249300189184">September 8, 2014</a></blockquote>
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PANDFAN said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Due to Penn State’s progress in ensuring athletics dept functions with integrity, NCAA immediately restores football postseason eligibility.</p>— Inside the NCAA (@InsidetheNCAA) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsidetheNCAA/status/509046249300189184">September 8, 2014</a></blockquote>
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If they didn't suck so bad, this would matter immediately.
 
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Moral of the story is COVER UP EVERYTHING! Even serial child rape... because the worst you're going to get is a two year bowl ban. Ridiculous. NCAA is a complete farce.

Who wants to bet we somehow get smacked with a death penalty because students copied papers? Would be entirely consistent...
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The NCAA has also restored all scholarships to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PennState?src=hash">#PennState</a> football program beginning in 2015-16.</p>— Mike Farrell (@rivalsmike) <a href="https://twitter.com/rivalsmike/status/509049892300664832">September 8, 2014</a></blockquote>
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This definitely has to do with how badly the B1G was this weekend. Head of the BIG def pleaded with the NCAA that it was this or bust for the conference. The quality of play in the B1G is going down, they need another power team for the future, can't have a lowly PSU.
 
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PANDFAN said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>The NCAA has also restored all scholarships to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PennState?src=hash">#PennState</a> football program beginning in 2015-16.</p>— Mike Farrell (@rivalsmike) <a href="https://twitter.com/rivalsmike/status/509049892300664832">September 8, 2014</a></blockquote>
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The NCAA has absolutely no teeth. And for that matter...no backbone to stand by one of their decisions. They are a freaking joke and EVERYTIME I read about their involvement with anything it's always a complete joke. They should be ashamed...if I new knew who "they" were.
 
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I actually agree with the decision. PSU didn't commit an NCAA violation, just an incorrigible and illegal act. People went to jail. More than a decade of wins were vacated. An untold amount of shame was put, and remains, on the program.

...plus everyone wants PSU $$$ in bowl match ups.
 
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They should have never received NCAA penalties to begin with.
 
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tussin said:
They should have never received NCAA penalties to begin with.
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Ok. So letting a pedophilia run wild on your campus, because he was a football coach and covering it up is acceptable and there should be no punishment?
 
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Well, it is illegal to have a sex offender coaching 17 year olds, so I'm pretty sure that goes against both the law and the NCAA rules (if those mythical things exist). I hope that the NCAA leniency translates well for our 5 players...
 
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Buster Bluth said:
I actually agree with the decision. PSU didn't commit an NCAA violation, just an incorrigible and illegal act. People went to jail. More than a decade of wins were vacated. An untold amount of shame was put, and remains, on the program.

...plus everyone wants PSU $$$ in bowl match ups.
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Completely agree.
 
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ProdiGOL5ON said:
Well, it is illegal to have a sex offender coaching 17 year olds, so I'm pretty sure that goes against both the law and the NCAA rules (if those mythical things exist). I hope that the NCAA leniency translates well for our 5 players...
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And let's also not forget--let's not forget, Dude--that keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city--that isn't legal either.
 
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Sherm Sticky said:
Ok. So letting a pedophilia run wild on your campus, because he was a football coach and covering it up is acceptable and there should be no punishment?
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There was never any verifiable proof that Paterno covered anything up. When it was reported to him (in muted terms), he reported it to his superiors. He did what was required of him by PA state law. It was more of a coverup by PSU administrators and a moral failure by Paterno than anything that had to do with the football program. These were crimes and moral shortcomings of individuals, not a systematic football issue.


That being said, I know the NCAA doesn't have the burden of proof that the legal system has. They were free to punish the existing football program as they saw fit, I just disagree with some of the measures. I'm not defending PSU and I totally understand why they vacated the wins. Just doesn't make sense to continue punishing a team and staff that had literally nothing to do with the scandal.
 
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tussin said:
There was never any verifiable proof that Paterno covered anything up. When it was reported to him (in muted terms), he reported it to his superiors. He did what was required of him by PA state law. It was more of a coverup by PSU administrators and a moral failure by Paterno than anything that had to do with the football program. These were crimes and moral shortcomings of individuals, not a systematic football issue.


That being said, I know the NCAA doesn't have the burden of proof that the legal system has. They were free to punish the existing football program as they saw fit, I just disagree with some of the measures. I'm not defending PSU and I totally understand why they vacated the wins. Just doesn't make sense to continue punishing a team and staff that had literally nothing to do with the scandal.
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Every person currently involved with the team made the decision to accept the punishments as a part of that involvement.
 
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They are keeping the fines and the loss of bowl revenues, but they are letting players play in the postseason. I am perfectly fine with the decision.
 
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Sherm Sticky said:
Ok. So letting a pedophilia run wild on your campus, because he was a football coach and covering it up is acceptable and there should be no punishment?
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Punish the people who let the pedophilia run wild, not the kids who had nothing to do with it.
 
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