re: Penn State vacates all wins from 1998-2011, 4 year postseason ban, $73M fine

Posted on 7/23/12 at 8:12 am to LSUzealot

Posted by USAF Hart

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Posted on 7/23/12 at 8:12 am to LSUzealot

Meh....this doesn't seem as bad as the death penalty.

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Posted by PJinAtl

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Posted on 7/23/12 at 8:24 am to USAF Hart

quote:
Meh....this doesn't seem as bad as the death penalty.

What was the scholly reduction/number of years imposed on Alabama for the Logan Young/Albert Means case? I don't believe it was nearly as severe, and it dropped bama to middle of the road SEC for several years.

At the end of four years, PSU is going to have 60 scholarship players. If nothing else, that kills their depth. Look at Auburn and Tennessee the last couple of years when they didn't have the depth to rotate fresh players in; that killed them.

PSU will, IMHO, slowly fade and then have to slowly build back up. It will be nearly a decade before they are back to full strength in scholarship athletes.

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Posted by GeauxGus

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Posted on 7/23/12 at 11:56 am to USAF Hart

.... well, in all practicality - they got pretty much a "death penalty" for the program, wouldn't you say ? ... Tough on current and incoming players, and even past players - who, of course, had nothing to do with any of this. Not to mention athletes in the other NCAA sports at the school. Football revenue certainly is important to their continued viability, These other teams will suffer greatly. At any rate, NCAA ruling also gives , wisely and correctly, all PSU current and incoming players IMMEDIATE TRANSFER and ELIGIBILITY status , provided academic standing is acceptable. I think this should also EXTEND TO ALL OTHER SPORTS at PSU... The Nittany Lion ship will be listing heavily, if not sinking, and it can be expected that plenty will "jump ship" ..

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