re: Freeh report is out: "PSU showed 'total disregard' for Sandusky victims"

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Seems like a prime example of lack of institutional control to me.

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What was the institution failing to control?

They were failing to control the criminal actions of a former university employee.

Do the criminal actions of a former employee fall within the ambit of the NCAA's regulatory scope?

Of course not.

Imagine if Tennesse allowed Phillip Fulmer to keep an office on campus after he was fired as football coach. And then Fulmer starts up an illegal firearm distribution operation, and uses his university office as his headquarters in running the entire operation. Assume that all the higher ups know about it, but they don't do anything to stop it. Eventually Fulmer's firearms ring gets busted up by the cops, and all this comes to light.

Should the NCAA be involved? Of course not.

And the only difference between the fulmer hypo and the PSU situation is that one makes you cringe and the other doesn't.

A lack of institutional control penalty from the NCAA has to be based on underlying rampant violations of NCAA rules. All the NCAA really is just a huge goddamn rulebook and a collection of people figuring out to what extent the rules in that rulebook have been broken.

Institutional control is about adherence to that rulebook. Control over your program so that it plays by the rules in that rulebook.