Here are the punishments Emmert and the NCAA announced today for Penn State.
I have three comments:
1. Why only one year worth of financial penalties and who gets the $60 million? Why didn’t the NCAA require that these moneys go to the victims? Is the NCAA (rightly) afraid it will be sue3d?
2. Is this restricted to football?
3. Why is there a presumption that PENN State can or should rebuild a football program in four years. Why not make them abandon all competitive sports for 4 years and then APPLY for readmission?
4. Why is this restricted to Penn State? The NCAA is league. How much was known by other members of the league .. including UW athletic professionals? Shouldn’t schools that profited from playing Penn State also be penalized with payments going to the victims?
5. Why muck with real data? A win, even a legal win happened. Just put a footnote on them and remove Paterno’s right to be considered in any honorific list.
Penn State Punishments:
- $60 million fine, representing approximately one year of football revenues. These funds will go to child sex abuse awareness programs.
- Any entering, returning football student athlete can transfer immediately. Presuming academic requirements are met, these potential transfers can play immediately.
- PSU vacates all wins from 1998-2011. The loss of 111 career wins drops Joe Paterno from atop the all-time wins list to 12th.
- PSU begins a five-year probationary period, with the NCAA reserving the right to implement further punishments.
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Steve Schwartz
What strikes me more than the penalties is news I read somewhere that Emmert admitted there was no due process in the NCAA before the penalties were imposed. According to Emmert, the basis was the Freeh report. Shades of the Aprikyan due process issue?