[Husker] Penn State's Penalties

[Nick Chevance]

> 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.
> --
> Mike Nolan

I agree, though remember one of the issues the NCAA is addressing here
is their perceived lack of strong action in recent cases.  By
comparison, it was pretty safe for the NCAA to issue these sanctions
against PSU, because few seem to want to argue them now.  The
situation is bad, and the University is loathed to seem anything but
humbled by it.

My concern is that I think some of the more recent issues (USC and
OSU) may have called for more than what the school's got, but the NCAA
failed to dish out greater punishment for fear of threatening the
stability of these time-honored institutions (they all remember what
happened to SMU).  They did what they are now saying they can't do,
caved to the king that is football.  Now they're saying, the king is
dead.  Or severely crippled, at least.  I'm hoping that when the next
case of  "lack of institutional control" pops up, they nail them good.
 As I think they should have been doing all along.  Anyone see any
evidence that USC or OSU have been hurt by their sanctions?  I thought
that was the point.

Nick
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