Overall, painful but insufficient. This reads to me that Penn State, in effect, has been demoted to a (much?) lower division than it's now-nominal Division 1A.
"Minimize damage to innocent individuals" my foot. Persisent financial violations were enough to get the only example of one-year shut down (SMU, 1987), but allowing the infliction of permanent physical and emotional trauma for over a decade is not? NCAA indicates that the death penalty was not appropriate because Penn State didn't meet the requirement of 2 violations in 5 years. This is disingenous legalistic weaseling. Among other things, the repeat violater rule is by no means the only basis for imposing the death penalty.
Financial: As part of its article, USAToday opines that the penalties would likely affect Penn State as much as suspending the program for a year would. Tell me that 1-4 years from now, when we can examine the revenues generated by the program.
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I've heard the same thing, that the sanctions will evicerate Penn State's program. SMU has, by all accounts, been affected by its dealth penalty (in effect, 2 years) for a couple of decades. BTW, the Wikipedia article on NCAA Death Penalty is interesting, if it can be relied upon: it lists the five times the sanction has been imposed. Judging by the write-up, football gets much wider leeway than lessor sports such as tennis.
Interesting question - which would the university prefer? We'll never know, of course. It got finally got smart and is acquiescing to just about everything but criminal sanction. Perhaps they'll acquiesce to that as well, we'll find out when the indictments are announced. I really, really hope there's no behind-the-scenes negotiation about the sanctions, NCAA or criminal.
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"Minimize damage to innocent individuals" my foot. Persisent financial violations were enough to get the only example of one-year shut down (SMU, 1987), but allowing the infliction of permanent physical and emotional trauma for over a decade is not? NCAA indicates that the death penalty was not appropriate because Penn State didn't meet the requirement of 2 violations in 5 years. This is disingenous legalistic weaseling. Among other things, the repeat violater rule is by no means the only basis for imposing the death penalty.
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As part of its article, USAToday opines that the penalties would likely affect Penn State as much as suspending the program for a year would. Tell me that 1-4 years from now, when we can examine the revenues generated by the program.
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Interesting question - which would the university prefer? We'll never know, of course. It got finally got smart and is acquiescing to just about everything but criminal sanction. Perhaps they'll acquiesce to that as well, we'll find out when the indictments are announced. I really, really hope there's no behind-the-scenes negotiation about the sanctions, NCAA or criminal.
What do you think about the sanctions?
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