Joe Paterno to resign at end of season

[Lamplighter]

And no church services for four years.

Show that one to anybody who says The Cellar doesn't come up with any new ideas.
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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Show that one to anybody who says The Cellar doesn't come up with any new ideas.

An old idea. It was posted maybe a week ago. "Current Events" means last week was history.

[Spexxvet]

Some immediate reaction thoughts:

Taxpayers subsidize Penn State, directly through funding and indirectly through student tuition programs. Fining the institution is fining taxpayers. The NCAA fines and the sure-to-come (and justified) civil penalties should be paid by the individuals responsible - administrators, board members, prosecutors, investigators, janitors, et al.

The NCAA penalties will hurt people well beyond the football program and the university. Local businesses are going to take a beating, when maybe 20,000 fewer people come to town 8 times a year.

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

The NCAA penalties will hurt people well beyond the football program and the university.

The Penn State football program as a first rate contender is done and over. SMU that received much less punishment never recovered. These penalties are designed to harm the football program. Only the trustees (and Sandusky's wife) are getting off easy.

The $60million penalty comes at the expense of Penn State's (31?) other varsity athletic programs. Trustees will see no harm to their budgets.

All Penn State scholarship players are open game for all other schools. For example, if a school is limited to only 60 scholarships and recruits two Penn State players. Then the school can have 62 recruited players on scholarship. The Penn State football program, one of the few profitable ones in college sports, will not recover. The trustees did absolutely nothing to protect it. Suggesting trustees were sacrificing the entire athletic department to not be tainted by this scandal and their decades of inaction.

Would the trustees have protected an honest janitor that reported pedophilia? Of course not. That was the problem.