Penn State gets HAMMERED!!!

[Volzfan]

http://www.pennlive....nstatefootball/

1- $60 million fine

2- 4 year bowl ban

3- Scholarship reduction from 25 per yr to 15 per year

4- Vacate all wins fron 1998 thru 2011 Paterno loses 111 of his wins.

5- 5 years probation

Players can transfer immediately without having to sit out a year.

Edited July 23, 2012 by Volzfan

[Guest ThePunisher]

http://www.pennlive....nstatefootball/

1- $60 million fine

2- 4 year bowl ban

3- Scholarship reduction from 25 per yr to 15 per year

4- Vacate all wins fron 1998 thru 2011 Paterno loses 111 of his wins.

Players can transfer immediately without having to sit out a year.

I bet the phones are busy right now for the players trying to get out.

[Raoul]

They got off easy in my opinion. Complete institutional malfeasance.

[Lumber_Jack]

I bet the phones are busy right now for the players trying to get out.

Reports are saying the 'Poachers" are literally ringing phones off the hook!

They got off easy in my opinion. Complete institutional malfeasance.

I totally agree. If SMU was worthy of the death penalty for paying players, and then lying about it after the second offense. This should have warranted such a penalty if my opinion. Time will tell how much this will hurt the football program. The sad thing is the football program revenue supports all the other non-revenue sports. So the entire athletic dept at Penn State will suffer.

[Guest rebeldrummer]

They got off easy in my opinion. Complete institutional malfeasance.

agreed!

[Fourtyfive]

Gonna be hard to find a coach !

[monkeylizard]

The post-season ban is kind of worthless. Any good players there now will be transferring since they won't have to red-shirt. Any good players who might be looking at PSU in the next few seasons, won't be any more. PSU won't be good enough to qualify for post-season play for thext 5+ years.

I too was expecting a death penalty for the coming season, on top of what they did. I was also expecting a special commission from the NCAA that would oversee the PSU athletics for the next 5 years. Maybe that's part of the "on probation".

Edited July 23, 2012 by monkeylizard

[dlm37015]

They got off easy in my opinion. Complete institutional malfeasance.

yes should be a lot of prison time for adm.

[JimmyMac483]

At least UT is now the '07 Outback Bowl Champs!

[Guest db99wj]

That is unfortunate........for the kids. As for the rest....good.

[monkeylizard]

yes should be a lot of prison time for adm.

That may come (unlikely), but that would be from the DA and law enforcement, not the NCAA. The NCAA can only issue fines and direct how their member schools compete. They don't enforce laws.

[Pain103]

They got hammered! If I were a player on the team that probably wouldn't make it pro I would keep my scholarship and quit the team. Free college and focus on academics. I assume there will many transferring very soon.

[monkeylizard]

Keeping your football scholarship and quiting the team isn't an option. Any current player (scholarship or not) can now transfer from PSU to any other NCAA team without having to sit out (red shirt) a year with the new team. The coming seasons at PSU will have 10 fewer players on scholarships, but not 10 fewer players. Those 10 spots will be filled by less talented players.

Edited July 23, 2012 by monkeylizard

[MacGyver]

The NCAA should have given these guys the death penalty. They knowingly, and thus willingly turned their backs on these kids. I get it that football seems really important. I get it that Paterno was more powerful than the governor. I get it that the football program brings in a heck of a lot more money than anything else a school of its caliber does. For all of those reasons, the NCAA should have offed the program.

This is a wrist slap in the grand scheme of things.

[Links2k]

Good! I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Joe Pa was also a booty bandit.

[Guest TankerHC]

The Football program isnt done being hammered yet. It was announced this morning that the Big Ten will be adding its own penalties.

[Pain103]

Keeping your football scholarship and quiting the team isn't an option. Any current player (scholarship or not) can now transfer from PSU to any other NCAA team without having to sit out (red shirt) a year with the new team. The coming seasons at PSU will have 10 fewer players on scholarships, but not 10 fewer players. Those 10 spots will be filled by less talented players.

Actually yes they can keep their scholarship and quit the team to stay at Penn State

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/20120723/21207232

Waiver of transfer rules and grant-in-aid retention. Any entering or returning football student-athlete will be allowed to immediately transfer and will be eligible to immediately compete at the transfer institution, provided he is otherwise eligible. Any football student-athlete who wants to remain at the University may retain his athletic grant-in-aid, as long as he meets and maintains applicable academic requirements, regardless of whether he competes on the football team.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I guess Sandusky was born that way. Poor victim. He may find out that end of it, eventually.

The idea that the players not involved in this scandal and just played football to win are being

punished to a great extent. Take the bowls and the championships away. I don't know about the fines,

either, because I thought laws would prevail over this, because the taxpayer will be the one paying for

this.

I guess I'm confused the same way I am so confused that some want to argue this crap differently

one way, in a colege setting, of a national sport, yet, have a different take when it involves the church

and politics.

Regardless, it's a tragedy that others will be punished for. Some rightly and some not so.

It's funny how morals live in one area and don't matter in others, depending on the situation, of course.

Maybe they'll find the gay gene in Jerry Sandusky and all will be well.

[zmtd8]

Gonna be hard to find a coach !

I am pretty sure he (the head coach now) had a stipulation in his contract that guaranteed him 4 more years if something like this happened. Do not take my word for it though.