[Husker] Penn State / NCAA deal

[Jon Johnston]

I guess I'm in the minority, then, because I hope that PSU does challenge this. 

I AM NOT A LAWYER BUT WILL ATTEMPT TO PORTRAY BEING ONE. That's okay, though, I work on computers and all you sunsabitches seem to think you know all about them. 

Okay - first, this whole thing was a complete bypass of due process. 
Second - if you think that this whole thing applied only to Penn State and you think that the NCAA (*cough power hungry Mark Emmert *cough) won't try to do this again whenever another school has a "moral" problem, you are sadly mistaken. 
Third - The BOT who says "They've destroyed the school" may be referring to the fact that the PSU Pres signed a consent decree agreeing to the Freeh report, which by my great understanding of reading more things online than the rest of y'all, means that it might make PSU more liable than they ever were before to civil lawsuits. Forget that the quote includes a bit about the football team, writers are worse than ever in making up quotes or paraphrasing these things because all the copy editors have died or been replaced by chop sticks. 

Listen, I don't have any sympathy for Jerry Sandusky, or the lot that covered this stuff up, but the NCAA, in throwing out "unprecedented sanctions" has, in fact, set a precedent. 

So, the next time there's a "Lawrence Phillips" incident, the public outcry will ask the NCAA (*cough Mark Emmert *cough) to act and penalize the school in the same way they did Penn State. 




Jon Johnston
Corn Nation

On Jul 25, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Mike Nolan wrote:

> Kinda sounds like NCAA Executive Committee Chairman Ed Ray wasn't in on the 
> negotiations, either, because on Monday he was widely quoted as saying that 
> the NCAA did not threaten Penn State with the Death Penalty, when it seems from 
> this report that they did exactly that.
> 
> I hope some sanity surfaces among the Penn State Trustees and they don't try
> to challenge Monday's sanctions in court, because now we know what the 'or else'
> would likely be.  
> 
> More and more I'm thinking the entire board of Trustees may need to be replaced
> in fairly short order.  
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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