[Husker] Penn State / NCAA deal

[George Rapp]

Interesting article, David. Thanks.

Most interesting part to me was the whining from the trustees who didn't
get a chance to vote on the consent decree:

Two trustees said most of the board's members did not find out about the
> terms of the agreement until Monday morning.
> "This is the most significant decision in the history of Penn State, and
> we didn't know," one trustee said. "The financial impact of this decision
> could run as high as $500 million, and we didn't know anything about it.
> "The Freeh report criticized us for not being in the loop on the Sandusky
> matter, and we were totally out of the loop on this. What happened to the
> transparency that we were promised?"
> Another trustee said there is a growing movement among some trustees to
> attempt to challenge the consent decree in court.
> "They've destroyed the school, as far as I'm concerned," this trustee
> said. "Think of the innocent players hurt by this. They had nothing to do
> with this and they have to pay the price."
> On Wednesday, Erickson said he had consulted with Peetz, the board
> chairwoman, and the university's outside counsel, about whether he had the
> authority to negotiate and approve the agreement with the NCAA.
> "We felt that I had the authority to engage in that consent decree,"
> Erickson said.


Uh, guys, maybe this thing just needed to *end*, not drag on well into
football season while the BoT debated it?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:32 PM, David Strong <gobigredlist at gmail.com>wrote:

> This is the first interesting thing I've read on this topic since the press
> conference.
>
>
> http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/8199905/penn-state-nittany-lions-rodney-erickson-said-school-faced-4-year-death-penalty
>
> Please disregard if you are not interested in this story anymore.  I know
> I'm pretty sick of hearing about it.
>
> Dave
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