re: Penn State NCAA Sanctions thread - announcement at 8 CST

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believe the NCAA is out to punish "the idea of bad things being covered up" which is about as fricking stupid as stupid gets. Again, Emmert and the NCAA are about to break their own record for ridiculousness. I would like to collectively bitch slap the entire organization.

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ok, so you hate the ncaa. yet you offer nothing in it's place? are you one of these "free market" assholes that think there should be no rules? no regulations even? that, of course, is the definition of anarchy. you can throw out the ncaa and replace it with someother org. but what's the difference? THE FACT IS that the ncaa is comprised of member colleges. said colleges are free to leave at any time. the officials of the ncaa (per your hate of mark emmert) serve at the pleasure of these colleges and they can dump him anytime they wish. so what's your better idea?

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But WHY is it being punished by the NCAA? The people who were involved in the cover up are going to prison for a very long time/the rest of their lives. The criminal justice system has already punished those responsible. Now you're going to punish the school and the program for something that didn't involve a competitive advantage. And these sanctions are all based on a report that wasn't even put together by the NCAA.

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It kind of makes college athletics as a whole look extremely bad. I take is as the administrators of PSU loved their football program so much that they were willing to cover this up so that it would not tarnish it's good name. You can't actively try and conceal a scandal of this magnitude in order to keep a football team in tact. When we as a society have reached that point, then we have no moral ground to stand on. He raped children and they covered it up. It sickens me that any parent would want their child to even play there after this. This is truly disgusting.

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No, the criminal justice has not eliminated Penn State football, the cult where this abhorrent, neglectful attitude permeated every corner.

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The people who permeated this cult are now dead or going to jail. Why eliminate the program when the problem has already been harshly dealt with?

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It kind of makes college athletics as a whole look extremely bad. I take is as the administrators of PSU loved their football program so much that they were willing to cover this up so that it would not tarnish it's good name. You can't actively try and conceal a scandal of this magnitude in order to keep a football team in tact. When we as a society have reached that point, then we have no moral ground to stand on. He raped children and they covered it up. It sickens me that any parent would want their child to even play there after this. This is truly disgusting.

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And the people who allowed all of this to happen, who covered it up, are going to jail for the rest of their lives. The entire administration is in the process of being overhauled and reformed. There is no need to bring down an entire program when the problem is already being harshly dealt with by the criminal justice system.

They don't have to move, but they have the option.

Now why do you think all of this happen? It seems apparent that it was all to protect the football program. Months of research and reporting shows as much.

Look at the precious students trying to protect the statue. The protective mindset of the brand appears far from gone from the campus.

I'm not saying I have all the right answers, but the programs needs to take a hit, but the protection of the program was the driving force for covering up child rape

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We'll bring down a football program to stop rape.

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I don't see why that's a joke. I'd bring down Bama football if it was the kind of place where a child rapist was knowingly allowed to rape children.

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All these lynchtards are going to be pissed soon. The NCAA is overstepping it's own rules(Not shocking, just like governments) to punish for criminal behavior. This opens the door for the NCAA to levy punishments upon players and coaches outside of NCAA rules. How many of you would be pissed if TM was suspended for the rest of the year or this year for synthetic pot last year?

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Won't happen, there would have been previous precedent in the case of TM. In this case, there is no precedent where a University knowingly and repeatedly concealed horrendous criminal activity by the entire Athletic Program. No were previously is the precedent where the Administration and University officials aided in the continued facilitation of such criminal activity (Second Mile and PSU allowing use of facilities)

Take football out of the equation for a moment and look at what was going on.....

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The people who permeated this cult are now dead or going to jail.

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You need to read the Freeh report. You're going to feel terrible for saying this. It was everywhere. They're still there.

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I don't see why that's a joke. I'd bring down Bama football if it was the kind of place where a child rapist was knowingly allowed to rape children.

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I hate Alabama as much as any other lsu fan, but that'd be ridiculous. Especially when you're talking this many years later.

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Now why do you think all of this happen?

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Because some people are sick. Those people have been removed from the program.