re: Bob Costas just called for death penalty at PSU

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They are and you're assuming they aren't. The civil suits will cost the university millions and the university has been very active since this happened to study ways to implement changes that will stop this from ever occurring again. These are people btw that had nothing to do with this. The university has gone out of its way to champion full disclosure. Some of it is self preservation, but it's also to prevent these horrific events from happening again

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i don't have the link, but going through the Everyday Should Be Saturday site, there's a link to some legal analysis of how much the actual cost of the lawsuits would be, basing it off of abuse cases involving the Catholic Church. The average settlement is something like $1-1.5 million. So not enough to significantly impact the endowment, and likely covered by Penn State's insurance.

I hear the arguments that Penn State is trying to change, but then i also see that the Board of Trustees is still being influenced by Paterno from beyond the grave -- what if we take down his statue, will it effect fundraising? stuff like that.

Maybe cooler heads will prevail and measured response to this whole thing will emerge, but it still seems like the decision makers are being unduly influenced by the perception of the football program.