[Husker] Penn State's Penalties

[Mike Nolan]

> Mark, is your statement below your 'hunch' or do you have information to support 
> the statement?

I think he's half right.  Penn State had little or no input into the process, but also had little
choice other than to accept the NCAA's and Big Ten's sanctions.  

Fighting them, whether through the NCAA's committee system or in court, would be counter-productive 
for Penn State, and would send all the wrong signals about how committed they are for change
in Happy Valley.

The Paterno family and Graham Spanier have both issued additional statements showing their ongoing 
dissatisfaction with the Freeh report and now with the NCAA's sanctions and the process by which they 
were reached.  

On the other hand, the NCAA has now set some dangerous precedents.  Hopefully there will never 
be another case this bad, but precedents, once set, tend to be used again.  Call it the law of
unintended consequences, if you will.  
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Mike Nolan