[NU Sports] kill PSU football

[Dennis W. Brandt]

> So this is what Neil Kaplan and I were just talking about.
>
> If we were advising the governor of Pennsylvania, we would tell the
> governor:
>
> 1. Relieve Mr. Paterno of his duties immediately.
>
> 2. Ditto the university president.
>
> 3. Cancel the remainder of the 2011 Penn State football season.
>
> 4. Cancel the 2012 Penn State football season.
>
> 5. The state will honor the scholarships of those young men on the 
> football
> team who wish to stay at Penn State. Those who wish to leave and pursue
> other opportunities will be released to do so.
>
> 6. Announce that you are taking these steps because the university's
> leaders have clearly lost their moral compass.
>
> 7. It is going to take some time for everyone to appropriately again
> understand how football fits into the scheme of the state's flagship
> university. Thus: no football until 2013.
>
> 8. Understandably, this means complications and a raft of details to be
> worked out. Today is not the day for details. Those details will be worked
> out, with the Big Ten and with our other partners.
>
> Neil and I believe that if the governor was to take this sort of decisive
> action it would be applauded around the United States. Thoughts? Comments?

I doubt the governor has the unilateral authority to do as you ask, and I'm 
damn sure he would not be reelected if he did.  State College would take a 
huge economic hit, and those residents are not responsible for anything that 
happened.  And why suspend just football games?  The alleged guilty parties 
are those who oversaw the entire Penn State sports program.

This is going WAY overboard.  Punish those responsible, not millions of 
people who are not.  As I said before, we need think with the adrenal 
cortex, not the adrenal.