phowell23
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I am hearing that they could face a 5-10 year bowl ban, loss of upwards of 50 scholarships (over a 10 year period), and will vacate victories over the past decade. The cover up was unprecedented. This is a shot across the bow of schools. Miami is next up.
No way to know for sure, but the speed of all of this leads me to believe that the resulting decision to be announced tomorrow morning is the result of a "plea bargain" of sorts between the NCAA and PSU. If that is the case, I would guess that the result will be like the plea bargains found in capital crime cases -- the sole object of the defendant (PSU) is to take the death penalty off of the table.
If that is indeed what has happened here, look for the NCAA to announce very serious penalties against PSU but they will not include the "death penalty" for the football program. I would speculate that the agreed upon penalties would involve severe loss of scholarships for an extended period (3-5 years) a bowl ban for the same length of time, and it could very well also include a TV ban. I believe that whatever agreement reached would, like a criminal case, preclude any appeals by PSU.
mlsoft
I just don't see a TV ban happening. Even as it already stands, mostly innocent people are going to be forced to bear the brunt of the penalties against the PSU football team, but to widen the scope of the penalties to include fans of other teams who would be forced to miss one of their team's games each season just doesn't seem fair. TV bans made sense 20 years ago when less games were televised, and the death penalty or serious sanctions basically meant you wouldn't be on TV anyway because you were going to suck during that time. Now that EVERY game is televised, I just can't see it.
No way to know for sure, but the speed of all of this leads me to believe that the resulting decision to be announced tomorrow morning is the result of a "plea bargain" of sorts between the NCAA and PSU. If that is the case, I would guess that the result will be like the plea bargains found in capital crime cases -- the sole object of the defendant (PSU) is to take the death penalty off of the table.
If that is indeed what has happened here, look for the NCAA to announce very serious penalties against PSU but they will not include the "death penalty" for the football program. I would speculate that the agreed upon penalties would involve severe loss of scholarships for an extended period (3-5 years) a bowl ban for the same length of time, and it could very well also include a TV ban. I believe that whatever agreement reached would, like a criminal case, preclude any appeals by PSU.
mlsoft
I am conflicted with knowing none of the current players had anything to do with this mess, and most likely none of the players ever had any knowledge - yet knowing that the cover-up was horrible and involved the head coach and top school administration. I still think they need to allow all of the players to transfer without penalty and then punish the program like many are saying with 3-5 years of nasty penalties.
What a mealy mouth measure by the ncaa.
I don't know if I'm more offended by the fact that they deemed themselves in a place to dole out punishment or by the fact that they stopped short of the death penalty
I can't overstate what a pos organization the ncaa is
PSU is going in the toliet for about the next decade.
No way to know for sure, but the speed of all of this leads me to believe that the resulting decision to be announced tomorrow morning is the result of a "plea bargain" of sorts between the NCAA and PSU. If that is the case, I would guess that the result will be like the plea bargains found in capital crime cases -- the sole object of the defendant (PSU) is to take the death penalty off of the table.
If that is indeed what has happened here, look for the NCAA to announce very serious penalties against PSU but they will not include the "death penalty" for the football program. I would speculate that the agreed upon penalties would involve severe loss of scholarships for an extended period (3-5 years) a bowl ban for the same length of time, and it could very well also include a TV ban. I believe that whatever agreement reached would, like a criminal case, preclude any appeals by PSU.
mlsoft