Penn State scandal (merged)

#4,953
#4,953
So sad, at least 14 years unreported. All victimized after 98 or at least 2001 would have been protected from Sandusky.
 
#4,954
#4,954
My dad once told me that all the good deeds you've done in the past mean nothing if you aren't willing to stand up today and do the right thing. Its too bad that Joe Paterno forgot that (or never knew it to begin with).
 
#4,955
#4,955
Aside from writing some very large checks to the victims, Penn State needs to step up and take some symbolic, but meaningful actions. Paterno's statue should come down; his name should be removed from all of those buildings on campus; and all wins should be vacated from 2001 on. It was a rotten culture surrounding the football program that inspired many adults to turn their heads and children were having their lives destroyed, and any accomplishments during that era came at the expense of those kids.

I hope every SEC member will refuse to participate in athletics against Penn State until they do what I just laid out.
 
#4,957
#4,957
I never in my life time thought I'd ever see the death penalty applied again. But I just don't see how you can't give PSU the death penalty. A uni that continued to hide facts to rake in cash for it's FB program.
 
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ABQduck said:
I never in my life time thought I'd ever see the death penalty applied again. But I just don't see how you can't give PSU the death penalty. A uni that continued to hide facts to rake in cash for it's FB program.
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No NCAA rules were violated, so I'm in the camp that says the NCAA should stay out of it.

But my God, is it bad...
 
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#4,961
#4,961
Saw a couple minutes of the report, but my ESPN3 connection is iffy today so I'll watch it later. Sounds like Penn State's in a world of hurt thirty times bigger than originally thought, and it was bad to start with.
 
#4,964
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bamawriter said:
No NCAA rules were violated, so I'm in the camp that says the NCAA should stay out of it.

But my God, is it bad...
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I'm there with you, instead they should divide up their 14 billion in endowments among the victims and all proceeds from football should go toward child abuse prevention programs.
 
#4,965
#4,965
I don't expect any sanctions to come against their football program. They should have to vacate every win from the incident on, and everything with Joe Pa on it will be gone.
 
#4,966
#4,966
Penn St. better serve these guys up to the wolves and throw them under every bus within sight. Specifically Joe Pa because he is the face of this even more so than Sandusky it seems.
 
#4,967
#4,967
I want to hear from the posters who were defending Paterno through all this as there were many. Have feelings changed?
 
#4,968
#4,968
YorkVol said:
I'm there with you, instead they should divide up their 14 billion in endowments among the victims and all proceeds from football should go toward child abuse prevention programs.
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Yea, let's take an absurd amount of the university's money away from present and future students who didn't contribute one iota to this scandal and give a ridiculous amount of cash to Sandusky's victims.

There's an absolute necessity for Penn State to give financial compensation to the victims, but anything over $1 million per victim is really pushing it.
 
#4,969
#4,969
ABQduck said:
I never in my life time thought I'd ever see the death penalty applied again. But I just don't see how you can't give PSU the death penalty. A uni that continued to hide facts to rake in cash for it's FB program.
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Because the death penalty's related to university athletics and performances related to cheating to gain unfair advantage and failure to monitor/admit/change.

Really, this is a whole different field of a matter - a university problem (not just a university athletics problem) that crosses over into a (not rehearsed in law so not sure what level it falls upon) crime and stuff at a larger but really non-athletic level.


The NCAA doing such here would really just be them overstepping their own limits...in a way that'd really only be them stepping in for some good press in a bad situation (like politicians sometimes do)
 
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#4,970
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I'm trying to read the whole thing. I read the indictment and some of the court transcripts, and this almost upsets me even more. Sandusky is a monster, and monsters do terrible things. But these men aren't monsters, yet they had so many opportunities to do something, anything, and they aided and abetted Sandusky's crimes.
 
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orangesparkles said:
Yea, let's take an absurd amount of the university's money away from present and future students who didn't contribute one iota to this scandal and give a ridiculous amount of cash to Sandusky's victims.

There's an absolute necessity for Penn State to give financial compensation to the victims, but anything over $1 million per victim is really pushing it.
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I disagree wholeheartedly. There are thousands of places you can go to receive an education. And the staff of those places didn't allow a pedophile to use their facilities for child rape.

The students at Penn State won't be damaged by the school being bled dry.
 
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