I’m not moved with the dont punish the students and players bit because some schools have been hit with as harsh if not worse sanctions for a whole lot less. Penn State and that includes King Paterno allowed a known and by the way caught in the act pedophile to roam their campus and have access to children at will. The lack of a real football program and being unable to play and watch games every every season,pales in comparison to what these victims have and will continue to go through.
Seeing that these are STUDENT-athletes, it makes a difference and all thought should be given to students. While I’m usually not one to defend them seeing they get the perks of being an “athlete,” to disregard the fact that they aren’t affected by this in anyway shows a lack of oversight. The institution should be punished and even the football program should be given the death penalty, but if the athletes didn’t know they didn’t know. They are allowed to transfer, but that ish is difficult in and of itself. You may not even get to go where you want to go and teams still choose based on need. Also, did anyone even think about who was going to pay for that $60 million? Without an active program, it’d be difficult to do and depending on how tuition is regulated at their university or in their system, I doubt any student will want to stay to pay for that. I ache for the victims, but in all honesty, what does inadvertently and over-zealously punishing others do? Furthermore, seeing this has been swept under the rug since 1998, I think the NCAA just wants to clean its hands of something they more than likely overlooked as well. What’s seems to be missing in all of this is whether or not the other institution involved (Second Mile), was shut down. Talk about fair…
sigh* The financial penalty I get, “erasing” previously played games….. who gives a crap. And preventing them from playing in future bowls…. I have mixed feelings. Most of me feels like that is just nonsensical and punishing the students for the failure of their administration, but at the same time, preventing bowls for the next several years could serve to temper the religious-like fervor of football culture at PSU. (Something I think many campuses should examine)
Or we can put effort into creating mechanisms to oversee Athletic Departments that fall under the governance of the NCAA… these structural changes may be an appropriate ways to addressing systematic grievances. Just saying…
I’m not moved with the dont punish the students and players bit because some schools have been hit with as harsh if not worse sanctions for a whole lot less. Penn State and that includes King Paterno allowed a known and by the way caught in the act pedophile to roam their campus and have access to children at will. The lack of a real football program and being unable to play and watch games every every season,pales in comparison to what these victims have and will continue to go through.
Seeing that these are STUDENT-athletes, it makes a difference and all thought should be given to students. While I’m usually not one to defend them seeing they get the perks of being an “athlete,” to disregard the fact that they aren’t affected by this in anyway shows a lack of oversight. The institution should be punished and even the football program should be given the death penalty, but if the athletes didn’t know they didn’t know. They are allowed to transfer, but that ish is difficult in and of itself. You may not even get to go where you want to go and teams still choose based on need. Also, did anyone even think about who was going to pay for that $60 million? Without an active program, it’d be difficult to do and depending on how tuition is regulated at their university or in their system, I doubt any student will want to stay to pay for that. I ache for the victims, but in all honesty, what does inadvertently and over-zealously punishing others do? Furthermore, seeing this has been swept under the rug since 1998, I think the NCAA just wants to clean its hands of something they more than likely overlooked as well. What’s seems to be missing in all of this is whether or not the other institution involved (Second Mile), was shut down. Talk about fair…
sigh* The financial penalty I get, “erasing” previously played games….. who gives a crap. And preventing them from playing in future bowls…. I have mixed feelings. Most of me feels like that is just nonsensical and punishing the students for the failure of their administration, but at the same time, preventing bowls for the next several years could serve to temper the religious-like fervor of football culture at PSU. (Something I think many campuses should examine)
Or we can put effort into creating mechanisms to oversee Athletic Departments that fall under the governance of the NCAA… these structural changes may be an appropriate ways to addressing systematic grievances. Just saying…
Fiscal penalties + revoked wins… band-aid solution.