NCAA announces Penn State University Football program sanctions, worse than the death penalty? There is no red shirt year if a student athlete transfers and their grants and aid automatically reassigned to their new athlete program. If I was a parent, I would have my son leave that program very quickly and transfer. The NCAA has left that door open very wide. The NCAA has acted vehemently in the horrific crimes against children that superiors ignored for the sake of a collegiate football program.
In my opinion, I believe they should disband the entire football program forever. Those children, now some adults lives will be forever altered. Why not a Collegiate Football program? It was because of what it fostered that lead to their physical emotional and spiritual harm.
But I do applaud the reality the NCAA has penalized the Penn State Football program. Greed has inflicted its nasty scar.
https://twitter.com/jeffemanuel/status/227397301033914368
The Big Ten Announced its own Sanctions against Penn State Click Here
Sidewalks Chalk 
This is shock waves running though the Div ! programs.
Congrats to the people in the NCAA!
I am glad these sanctions are in effect. I feel sorry for the players who had nothing to do with this and just wanted to play and hopefully make it to the pros. But the school giving them free education is a huge plus.
The NCAA Hammers Penn State With $60 Million Fine, Four-Year Bowl Ban
The penalties include: A $60 million fine, four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions of 10 per year for four years, all wins since 1998 have been vacated, and five years probation.
UPDATE #1:
The sanctions: A $60 million fine, four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions of 10 per year for four years, all wins since 1998 have been vacated, and five years probation.
All current players will be allowed to transfer schools without sitting out a year.
So basically, the NCAA went as far as it could without giving the school the death penalty.
UPDATE #2:
NCAA prez Mark Emmert says that the $60 million is equal to one year of football revenue. The money will be endowed for a nationwide program to fight child sex abuse.
UPDATE #3:
Emmert on the death penalty: “The sanctions we have crafted are more forceful and impactful than that blanket penalty.”
Emmert is now done talking, his closing statement: “The culture, actions, and inactions will not be tolerated in collegiate athletics.”
Emmert says the school consented to the penalties, and they will not appeal. He declined to say whether he felt these penalties were worse than the death penalty.
More from Emmert: “If you find yourself in a position where the athletic culture is taking precedent over the academic culture, bad things can occur.”
UPDATE #4:
Charles Robinson of Yahoo! — who knows everything there is to know about this sort of thing — characterizes the severity of the sanctions as “total wreckage.”
UPDATE #5:
Emmert says the $60 million doesn’t specifically have to come from the football program, or even the athletic department. But it cannot come at the expense of non-revenue sports or scholarships.
UPDATE #6:
Oregon State president Ed Ray says it was unanimous, that everyone in the NCAA brass thought they needed to act immediately.
Emmert says the school and the NCAA have a plan to change the culture by using a “road map” that installs a more stringent “control structure.”
UPDATE #7:
A striking visual representation of what the vacated wins mean, via the school’s updated Wikipedia page (h/t Jimmy Traina):
http://www.businessinsider.com/penn-state-penalties-2012-7#ixzz21SExJUib
The United Penn States of America
The people of United States of America will no longer tolerate the abuses of the current administration. They will no longer suffer insufferable Representatives in Congress or in the Senate. It makes little difference whether the insufferable ones are complicit, intimidated into remaining silent or out of fear, simply unwilling to act. The American people will choose to separate themselves from the injustices, the intolerance, the corruption, the abuses, the despotism, the evil.
At Penn State University the motto “Success With Honor” became: “You’re fired” “You’re guilty” or “I quit”.
The reality Penn State now faces provides the rest of America with a microcosm. It demonstrates in universally relatable ways that yes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Still. When the corruption finally comes to light, even those who were thought unassailable pay the price.
In the White House, “Hope and change” has become “No, you didn’t”.
For American voters, the level of corruption, injustice, intolerance, the abuses, the despotism, the evil are coming to light. Over the next few months, more will be revealed.
The once unassailable, those considered unapproachable, even the almost god-like will pay. Sooner or later, whether it is being forced to resign in disgrace, being rejected by the masses or suddenly facing their Creator at the moment of their last breath.
Everybody has to pay.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/america/the-united-penn-states-of-america/
All these bad actors will be served their sentence one the day of their death.
It will never bring back the young lives affected. These men have no souls.
SB, That is so true. These children, now adults, will forever be traumatized by these men.
It is a local story here. PSU. on all the radio and TC stations, so I am hearing many angles.
There are manys sides to this story. The players didn’t do anything wrong so why should they be punished? It is a catch 22.