re: Penn State to get back scholarships

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If I'm not mistaken, USC players were also given the opportunity to transfer without sitting out a year if they wanted.

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I only bring this up because everyone is citing PSU's lack of employment of said individuals as the reason that this should no longer be an issue.

The amount of people defending the "legacy" of a school that allowed a former coach to use the PSU name to rape kids for 10 years is beyond me I believe.

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That at least had something to do with athletics. While what Sandusky did was monstrous, no competitive advantage was gained and the only connection the crime had to the athletic program was that some of the incidents went down inside the facility.

If a coach went on a murder spree inside the athletic building of some random college, after his fellow coaches missed obvious signs that he was psychotic, should the football program go on probation because of it?

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I'd say that if an athletic department knowingly covered up an actual murder, then yeah, sanctions should follow. Jesus, dude.

Some of the people behind the Reggie Bush stuff were still at USC.

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It just never really made sense to me. Its a good PR move for the NCAA, sure, but the football penalties never really made sense to me

Fine the ever living shite out of the athletic department, make their lives a living hell, make sure every guy that lead the program is fired, do all that and more, but giving a direct punishment to the current and new players and brand new coaches to try to make sure they are not good at football anymore, just makes no actual sense to me

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This

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Playing time is not a factor here.

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You also have the added factor of having to move hundreds, if not thousands of miles to play football somewhere else. Some of these boys were born and raised in Pennsylvania. That's added expense to come home for holidays such as Christmas. You're still hurting the players.

To me, the football sanctions were always kind of awkward. The punishments should've been harder in other areas but pulling football scholarships because of this monster and his actions was almost insulting to the victims.

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You also have the added factor of having to move hundreds, if not thousands of miles to play football somewhere else.

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That's why they were given every viable choice they could be given.

If a player wanted to stay at Penn State and play football, cool.
If a player wanted to stay at Penn State and quit football, he could still keep his athletic scholarship.
If a player wanted to transfer, he could do so and still keep his athletic scholarship and not have to sit out a year.

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Some of these boys were born and raised in Pennsylvania. That's added expense to come home for holidays such as Christmas.

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There are nine other colleges and universities in Pennsylvania who offer scholarship-level football.

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You're still hurting the players.

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The players are actually being given justifiable special treatment in this situation.

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Thats assuming every player had the means to transfer to a new school

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Correct.

First, if a player wanted to transfer, he would have to find a school to take him. That's easy for some players, but most aren't going to get offers except at maybe FCS or D2/D3 schools.

Also, there's the issue of transferring credits. Most universities require a minimum number of hours to be taken at the institution (as opposed to being transferred in) in order to get a degree. So if a player is one year away from a degree, he may not find a school willing to take his credits.

This could also pose a problem if the player has an offer upon graduation; he simply can't delay doing so or the offer may be rescinded.

Then do away with the program and banish all of them. I always had issue with the quantifying of scholarships. How the hell do you determine a suitable punishment in those terms for something so heinous. At least now some more kids will get scholarships to play college football.

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Some of the people behind the Reggie Bush stuff were still at USC.

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Who? Not the head coach. Not the AD. Not the player...

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Always Seemed a little pointless to me to punish football players and coaches that had nothing to do with all that that went down.

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None of the current SC players had anything to do with Reggie Bush. Why should they be punished? SC is still under sanctions and the Bush stuff happened 8 years ago!

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While what Sandusky did was monstrous, no competitive advantage was gained and the only connection the crime had to the athletic program was that some of the incidents went down inside the facility.

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How did USC get a competitive advantage by Reggie Bush leaving school early? That's why the wannabe sports agent gave his parents free rent and other stuff, so Bush would LEAVE USC.

And Penn State covering up for a child rapist for the sole purpose of protecting their football program and University is the fricking definition of lack of institutional control.

But whatever, frick everyone. frick everything. Yeah I mad, I jelly. If the same thing happened to your alma mater, you'd be furious too.