Should PSU get the Death Penalty?

[Skingraft]

No one won in all of this...

It is very sad and everyone involved loss

[E.T.]

After these 4 years, it could take another 4 to be relevant again on the Nat'l stage. The Paterno mystic will be gone. They may turn into the Gamecocks of PA

[Reliable Source]

Sad part or one of the sad parts is the fact other sports at Penn St will suffer because they were majorly funded by the football program and that revenue source is gone.

the football team made $43.8M for them last year. their athletic department was about $15M in profit. they will pay this over 5 years. here is a quote concerning other sports

The football team, which was 9-4 last season, had an operating profit of $43.8 million on $58.9 million in revenue. The NCAA has informed Penn State that the $60 million fine cannot come at the expense of other non-revenue sports or other student-athlete scholarships, Emmert said.

http://www.bostonglo...swjN/story.html

I read that their total income was $110MM with probably $50MM in football directed Alumni donations. Which would make sense with the $58.9MM in operating revenues. No way, other sports get hurt by this, especially with that mandate from the NCAA. Edited July 23, 2012 by Bullwinkle

[crambone]

Since PSU can't go to a bowl game, they should just schedule Hawaii away every year during the first week in December. That gives them their vacation and plus it won't count towards the 12-game limit so they can still have 6-7 home games.

There's a loophole around everything.

[Danm1983]

sorry, couldn't help but laugh at those "poor" students who were doing the whambulance dance in their student center. boo ******* hoo, your football/college experience isn't gone. it's just not as good. welcome to being usf or some other non-elite program for a few years. while the penalties may be worse than the death penalty, be glad you can still have a football team out there. and if you think they're gonna be no good, go to a basketball/baseball/soccer/volleyball (PSU has great v-ball) and keep focus on your studies. football is great, but it isn't supposed to consume your life, and for the regular non-athlete students, you are still getting a great education from a top tier university with ridiculous tuition rates that many other people would kill to be able to afford and go to school there.

[Bull94]

sorry, couldn't help but laugh at those "poor" students who were doing the whambulance dance in their student center. boo ******* hoo, your football/college experience isn't gone. it's just not as good. welcome to being usf or some other non-elite program for a few years. while the penalties may be worse than the death penalty, be glad you can still have a football team out there. and if you think they're gonna be no good, go to a basketball/baseball/soccer/volleyball (PSU has great v-ball) and keep focus on your studies. football is great, but it isn't supposed to consume your life, and for the regular non-athlete students, you are still getting a great education from a top tier university with ridiculous tuition rates that many other people would kill to be able to afford and go to school there.

yeah screw those college students that had absolutely nothing to do with what happened or the fact it was covered up!!!

hell they were close to 10 years old when it happened at psu. let's punish them severely to teach them a lesson to never let it happen again!!

[Florida Bull]

sorry, couldn't help but laugh at those "poor" students who were doing the whambulance dance in their student center. boo ******* hoo, your football/college experience isn't gone. it's just not as good. welcome to being usf or some other non-elite program for a few years. while the penalties may be worse than the death penalty, be glad you can still have a football team out there. and if you think they're gonna be no good, go to a basketball/baseball/soccer/volleyball

(PSU has great v-ball) and keep focus on your studies. football is great, but it isn't supposed to consume your life, and for the regular non-athlete students, you are still getting a great education from a top tier university with ridiculous tuition rates that many other people would kill to be able to afford and go to school there.

yeah screw those college students that had absolutely nothing to do with what happened or the fact it was covered up!!!

hell they were close to 10 years old when it happened at psu. let's punish them severely to teach them a lesson to never let it happen again!!

There are penalties against the whole team and associated fans during games, and for recruiting violations. This is really no different.

If it's so necessary those students attend a school with a national championship contender in football, they can always transfer.

[Bull-by-Marriage]

sorry, couldn't help but laugh at those "poor" students who were doing the whambulance dance in their student center. boo ******* hoo, your football/college experience isn't gone. it's just not as good. welcome to being usf or some other non-elite program for a few years. while the penalties may be worse than the death penalty, be glad you can still have a football team out there. and if you think they're gonna be no good, go to a basketball/baseball/soccer/volleyball (PSU has great v-ball) and keep focus on your studies. football is great, but it isn't supposed to consume your life, and for the regular non-athlete students, you are still getting a great education from a top tier university with ridiculous tuition rates that many other people would kill to be able to afford and go to school there.

yeah screw those college students that had absolutely nothing to do with what happened or the fact it was covered up!!!

hell they were close to 10 years old when it happened at psu. let's punish them severely to teach them a lesson to never let it happen again!!

Turning over a news truck, holding a vigil at the statue AFTER he was implicated. Not by 10 year olds, but by current students. I'm not going to argue so don't expect a pi$$ing match.

[Bull94]

sorry, couldn't help but laugh at those "poor" students who were doing the whambulance dance in their student center. boo ******* hoo, your football/college experience isn't gone. it's just not as good. welcome to being usf or some other non-elite program for a few years. while the penalties may be worse than the death penalty, be glad you can still have a football team out there. and if you think they're gonna be no good, go to a basketball/baseball/soccer/volleyball

(PSU has great v-ball) and keep focus on your studies. football is great, but it isn't supposed to consume your life, and for the regular non-athlete students, you are still getting a great education from a top tier university with ridiculous tuition rates that many other people would kill to be able to afford and go to school there.

yeah screw those college students that had absolutely nothing to do with what happened or the fact it was covered up!!!

hell they were close to 10 years old when it happened at psu. let's punish them severely to teach them a lesson to never let it happen again!!

There are penalties against the whole team and associated fans during games, and for recruiting violations. This is really no different.

If it's so necessary those students attend a school with a national championship contender in football, they can always transfer.

so you wouldn't have a problem if you were a current USF student and something happened 10 years ago that got us a 4 year ban, 40 scholarship losses, $60M fine, allowed players to transfer, etc?

that's what happened to them.

sure just transfer......

[slbpsi63]

Why isn't anybody getting pissed off at the police department for f'ing up the 1998 investigation? One shrink said pedophile, the other shirnk said not a pedophile. Sooo they decided to go with the second opinion and leave it all alone. This was done prior to Spanier, Curley, Schultz and Paterno getting involved. It was out of their control. The mom went to the police and she was told, "NAH Sandusky is a saint"..... Penn State is righfully accused of a cover up, but I think the police department is more liable. If they had differing opinions by skrinks, they should have gotten a third opinion. we can't ask the DA anything cuz he is missing....