[NU Sports] NYT Column on Penn State

[Jonathan Hodges]

In the Big Ten teleconference, Tom Bradley just said PSU will accept a bowl
invite and there will be a 2012 season.

As others have mentioned, though, I'm not sure about the desirability of
PSU for a bowl game following this season.  They may very well shift down
the Big Ten bowl ladder if they don't win out and make it to Pasadena
(which is unlikely), but not sure how far (since the lower tier bowls want
people in the seats, and PSU will likely provide that to some degree even
with what has happened).

Jonathan

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at comcast.net> wrote:

> <First, it should announce that it will not participate in a postseason
> bowl game this year
>
> Why?  The football team and its fans bear neither legal nor moral
> responsibility in this matter.
>
> < Second, it must discipline the rioters.
>
> Agreed in spades, and "discipline" should mean permanent expulsion as well
> as legal ramifications.  But good luck identifying more than a handful of
> them.
>
> <Third, it must promise not to use its status as a state institution to
> shield itself from the inevitable civil lawsuits
>
> Pragmatically, there is nothing Penn State can do to prevent law suits,
> and it would be an unmitigated PR disaster for the university if they tried.
>
> <Fourth, Penn State should establish a compensation fund.
>
> No problem there.
>
> < Finally, Penn State should announce that it will cancel the 2012
> football season.
>
> Stupid.  See "first" above for part of the reason why.  Joe Paterno and
> Mike McQueary's actions in this matter followed exactly the letter of
> Pennsylvania law, which is why neither is being prosecuted.  (Whether you
> believe that law is adequate is not relevant ex post facto.)   Legal
> culpability falls on the athletic director and higher-ups whom state law
> clearly defines as those required to report the incident to the
> authorities. If you cancel the football season, then you logically must
> cancel every other intercollegiate sport in which Penn State participates
> because the guilty parties oversaw all sports.  Also given that football
> pays most of the bills for every other sport except basketball - and then
> possibly just the men's team - you may have to do that anyway if you follow
> Joe Nocera's pound-of-flesh advice.
>
>
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