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Posters on this sight have a very clear understanding of what went on at PSU for the last 14 yrs as witnessed by their slam dunk rebuttals. They also have a clear consesus on how PSU can come out of ths tragedy intact. Read Playmea's posts. What you are posting here is uninformed , backword garbage. Thats why you are getting so many d-votes. Paterno would be facing criminal charges if alive. Study the details before you post crap like this.

All of the downvotes for this post are ridiculous. Yes, what happened is horrible, EVERYONE GETS THAT. But there are legal, actually constitutional issues involved. As a lawyer, I pay attention to those. This post is actually fairly spot on. I hate what they did, and PSU will pay, but the NCAA is breaking their own rules, and likely laws, to move tomorrow AM without due process. This is a criminal matter, and should be handled as such.

Before you all rush to judgement, read this article on ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8188629/penn-state-nittany-lions-not-facing-death-penalty-monday-ncaa-source-says

My question is how does punishing Penn State help anything in any way? It isn't as if other schools will engage in similar practices just because PSU doesn't get hammered. The people involved were clearly the highest officers of the university and the football program but IMO this is an issue of those people who knew belonging in jail, and not an issue of a football program needing to be punished. Just my two cents.

If you do punish them, local business will get crushed, and the athletes will need to find new schools. It just doesn't seem to me that anything positive comes from hammering them. It doesn't undo what was done and it directly hurts the innocent members of that community- not to mention the innocent student body.

Paying players and stuff of that nature needs to be monitored by the NCAA because those practices will continue if they go unchecked. I think it is safe to say that the NCAA doesn't need to punish Penn State in order to prevent another situation like this even if they did gain a competitive advantage.

No offense BBarr, but you couldn't be further from the truth....someone has to hurt them the most and where it hurts the most, to get the point across...as I read their board and fans reaction, it's quite obvious, they don't get the severity of what has happened. Nothing in my 50+ years is a more pure display of LOIC than what we have seen...unfortunately, the poor victims can't do much at this point...the NCAA sure can/will, god hoping its the most severe, unconventional penalites ever...how you can't see this is beyond me. So do me a favor, imagine if one of the victims was your son, would you feel the same way and post what you posted? I think not.I wish I had more down votes for you.

Just that I couldn't disagree more and it is beyond me that anyone could think that PSU doesn't deserve to get punished.....the football program covered up 14 years of that shit just so recruits wouldn't think twice about coming to PSU.......not only do I think they should be punished but I think they should get the death penalty.....think about the victims for just one minute....and your worried about how it will affect local businesses? C'mon dude get real

Ncaa sanctions seem silly and useless in this case. It doesn't punish sandusky or any of the people who allegedly ignored or covered up their suspicions. It doesn't seem like it helps the victims although perhaps they will get a little satisfaction from it. It seems trivial compared to the crimes committed.