NCAA levies heavy penalties on Penn State
This from the
Boston Globe:
Pennsylvania State University was fined $60 million as college
sports’ governing body penalized the school for its handling of a child
sex-abuse case involving assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. It avoided the
stiffest punishment, a shutdown of the football program that was at the
center of the scandal.
The school also was stripped of all its wins from 1998 through 2011,
barred from postseason games for four years and lost 20 total
scholarships annually for four seasons, according to a release from the
National Collegiate Athletic Association. The postseason ban matches the
longest in NCAA history, according to the NCAA’s database as cited by
ESPN.
“One of the grave dangers stemming from our love of sports is that
the sports themselves can become too big to fail, indeed, too big to
even challenge,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said at a televised news
conference. “The result can be an erosion of academic values replaced by
the values of hero worship and winning at all costs.”
The discipline announced by the NCAA avoided the so-called death
penalty against the program where Joe Paterno, the coach who won a
record 409 games, became a focus of the scandal. Paterno’s record will
also lose the victories he recorded as coach from 1998 through last
season.
The NCAA statement said Penn State’s leadership had perpetuated a
“football-first culture that ultimately enabled serial child sex abuse
to occur.” Emmert said Penn State had agreed not to appeal the
penalties...
The NCAA also shut down the University of Kentucky basketball team for
the 1952-53 season; the basketball team at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana for two seasons from 1973-75; the men’s soccer
team at Morehouse College in 2004 and 2005; and the men’s tennis program
at MacMurray College for two seasons from 2005-07...
2 comments:
Good response but not sure how taking away wins means anything, not even symbolic in purpose.
Current Penn state football players are the ones who get screwed on this deal. THe ability to immediately leave and play else were is meaningless at a time when no scholarships are available anywhere else, teams are already established and the ability to apply and get enrolled at a university which probably starts classes in three weeks is impossible.
Actually the entire sports program is on the skids now that the cash cow has been put down. With the significant reduction in revenue and lose of scholarships, one can't help wondering how womens' field hockey, volleyball, etc. will exist.
I thought the same thing, but Mike & Mike were reporting some NCAA chatter that they might waive the 85 scholarship limit for this particular circumstance. Then any school that picked up a Penn St player would have to move back within 85 next year. I haven't heard if this has actually come to pass.
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