Harsh penalties for Penn State..very harsh...

[Exile]

Penn State is fined $60 million, banned from postseason for four years and loses scholarships
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INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA took unprecedented actions against Penn State on Monday in response to the Jerry Sandusky child sexual molestation scandal, fining the school $60 million, cutting scholarships for four years, imposing a four-year postseason ban and vacating all wins from 1998-2011.

NCAA president Mark Emmert boldly issued sanctions against Penn State. (Getty Images)
Vacating the wins means the late Joe Paterno no longer is the winningest major college football coach in history.
The actions were unprecedented both for their severity and how they unfolded. The normal NCAA enforcement process did not take place. Instead, NCAA president Mark Emmert gained approval from the board of directors for the penalties. The board is made up of 22 college presidents and chancellors.
Edward J. Ray, the NCAA executive committee chairman and president of Oregon State, said, "Not only does the NCAA have the authority to act in this case, we also have the responsibility."
Ray cited the Sandusky criminal investigation and the recently released Freeh Commission report as reasons for the NCAA actions. Ray noted that Penn State commissioned the Freeh report and agreed with the findings.
[Related: Eric Adelson: Paterno statue debate misses the point]
The $60 million fine, which Emmert said equaled one year of gross revenue from the football team, will be used to establish an endowment to help child sexual abuse victims.
"No price the NCAA can levy with repair the damage inflicted by Jerry Sandusky on his victims," Emmert said.
Penn State will be banned from the postseason for four years, which includes the Big Ten championship game and any bowl appearance. Initial scholarships have been reduced to 15 from 25 for four years; that means Penn State can sign just 15 recruits a year for four years. In addition, any player can transfer immediately without sitting out a year.
Emmert said Penn State has signed a consent decree in regard to the penalties, and he said the NCAA will work with Penn State to make sure the school implements the procedures called for by the NCAA.
Sandusky, a former Penn State defensive coordinator, was convicted of 45 counts of child molestation and is awaiting sentencing. Civil suits on behalf of Sandusky's victims are expected, and legal experts say Penn State could be liable for tens of millions of dollars.

[Muadib]

I am a little confused here.. what age were the victims in this affair ?

[Exile]

Football programme being downgraded...expect massive transfers esp. since they don't have to sit out a year...plus who going if they cant reach a bowl game at the end of season?

Big man a bathe naked with coach and school get the end of the stick...some man will sell....cho mek mi stop.

[Muadib]

ok.. did some research.. apparently the victims were minors.. the leadership in the College program turned a blind eye..

Time to pay the piper.. cyaan waffle when children are involved.

[Islandman]

So what you would say is a reasonable punishment?

This football program needed to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up. It was rotten to the core.

[Islandman]

It look like Exile never hear bout the youth who was a come home without him draws pon a regular basis and the mother fraid fe report it.

[Exile]

He wasn't a Penn State student? Was he? Wasn't Sandusky also at a pvt school b4 the college coaching?

[Muadib]

Sandusky was an assistant coach under head coach Joe Paterno for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team for 31 seasons from 1969 to 1999. For the last 23 of those years, he was the team's defensive coordinator.[13] In 1977, Sandusky founded The Second Mile, a charity formed to help troubled young boys, in State College, Pennsylvania.[14] In 1998, he was investigated for sexual abuse of a child but no charges were filed.[15] Sandusky was considered for spearheading a football program at Penn State Altoona in 1998–99, but the idea was scrapped and he retired in 1999.[16] After his retirement as Penn State's defensive coordinator, he remained as a coach emeritus with an office in, and access to, Penn State's football facilities.[17]

[Gamma]

it could have been harsher.

the main lick is to the pocket. college football is a business and they were protecting the brand/franchise suh lick dem hard in the pocket.

[Islandman]

If this is not enough for you, well.....

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...sky/56162986/1

At a press conference in Philadelphia after the report was released Freeh said Paterno, who died in January of cancer, could have stopped the abuse "if he so wished."

"We have a great deal of respect for Mr. Paterno and condolences for his family on the loss, it's a person with a terrific legacy, a great legacy, who brought huge value not just to the university but the program," Freeh said. "He, as someone once said, made perhaps the worst mistake of his life. But we're not singling him out. We're putting him in a category of four other people who we would say are the major leaders of Penn State."
"None of them ever spoke to Sandusky about his conduct," Freeh said. "Nothing was done and Sandusky was allowed to continue with impunity. … None of these four men took responsible action."

He also said the university trustees needed to take responsibility.

"The board failed in its oversight," he said. "They did not create an atmosphere where the personnel and the senior officials were accountable to the board."
Freeh said a 2000 incident, in which Sandusky's abuse of a young child in a football locker room was witnessed by a university janitor, represented a culture of silence that prevailed at Penn State to avoid bad publicity.

"What I found to be extremely telling and critical in deciding not just what I thought recommendations should be, is the janitors," Freeh said. "These are the employees of Penn State who clean and maintain the locker rooms in the Lasch building where young boys are being raped. They witness, what I think in the report is probably the most horrific rape that's described. And what do they do? They panic. The janitor who observes it says it's the worst thing he ever saw. He's a Korean war veteran. He said he's never seen anything like that. 'It makes me sick.' He spoke to the other janitors. They were awed and shocked by it. But, what did they do? They said they can't report this cause they'd be fired. They knew who Sandusky was."

The report said "they were afraid to take on the football program. They said the university would circle around it. It was like going against the president of the United States. If that's the culture on the bottom, God help the culture at the top."

[Islandman]

He wasn't a Penn State student? Was he?

So lets take this a bit further......if Sandusky was a serial killer and the University admin had some clue that this was the case, but didn't act on it because he wasn't killing Penn State students or God forbid, Penn State footballers, you would absolve them of any responsibility as well?

[Exile]

Whooooaa..Pull up! How yu itchy? I'm not defending Sandusky's action in any way or even Paterno's inaction...was just ASKING about the earlier 'crimes'...

[Islandman]

Well, you are defending the inaction of Penn State as an institution.

If some other institution was involved in earlier coverups they should certainly be made to pay for it.

Realise though that it is because of Sanduskys status in the Penn State community why this went on so long. It is not too different from what the Cathloic church did with their child molestors. Cover up to protect the institution at the expense of the victims.

[Gamma]

yup! trhe institution bigger than anything else including the victims AND the victimisation!

btw sandusky still planning to appeal?

[Exile]

Not defending Penn State at all...fine dem...charge dem..imprison the officials if possible..just find the measures harsh...for the students.