Penn State Fined $60 Million, 4 Year Bowl Ban, All Wins Vacated
Round of applause for the NCAA here. This whole scandal from start to finish has been marred by indecision and powerful people failing to act. Well not today. The NCAA is probably the only group involved in this saga that took a proactive, powerful approach and punished Penn State the way they deserved to be punished. They hit them in the wallet, they hit them in the record books, and by not shutting down the program and allowing all the current student athletes to either A) transfer without penalty or B) keep scholarships regardless of whether they play or not, they didn’t fuck over any innocent students who had nothing to do with this. Bravo.
So who will take their place in the Preparation H Bowl this year against Assumption College?
they should have just napalmed the entire campus and rid the world of those kool-aid chugging shitheads
I’d say to the footballer players to get out now while you can.
who gets the money?
jimross, it goes to programs for both the prevention of abuse and assistance to victims.
Money goes to a fund to aid victims of sexual abuse, I believe
60 million is nothing. Remember when McLaren got a 100 million dollar fine? This should actually impact the school’s finances. In my opinion this is a slap on the wrist. What Penn State did is worse than just about anything else in sports history. I’d say 200 million dollars off the books would be a good penalty.
Yes applaud the Institution that over reached their power and got involved in a matter that the NCAA was not created to Govern. This had nothing to do with recruiting or on the field matters the people in power have said it themselves. The fact that you think this is acceptable is appalling, a governing body should govern what they are supposed to govern. We are in America though where letting institutions do whatever the fuck they what has become the norm. Because of it we have a shit economy, Large amounts of debt and political corruption.
#idiots
makes no sense… why do the current athletes get punished for the inaction of a dead guy and a pedo that’s in prison?
onecomment do you really not understand that covering up a child sex abuse scandal has everything to do with recruiting?
all wins vacated from 98 through 2011
pretty sure current student athletes definitely get fucked over……..it’s not like transferring 4 weeks before the season is that easy, leaving your friends/bitch(es)/etc., having to pick a new school on such short notice, learning a new system, etc.
Yeah, must really suck to be a Penn State football player right now. Imagine having to transfer to a Florida, Alabama, Tennessee or Arizona State and having to introduce yourself to a whole new group of nubile young co-eds. Ohh, the humanity!
Impressive trolling, onecomment. Fuckin gaydo
“they didn’t fuck over any innocent students who had nothing to do with this”. $60 million divided by 40,000 students is $1,500 per a student. Penn State’s revenue comes from tuition, grants. and donations. Donations cannot be used to pay this $60 million because the purpose of the donation is specified by the donor to a certain cause. That’s $1,500 of my money that will be going to an NCAA fine, instead of my education. Am I the only one suspicious that a week before this outcome Penn State raised its tuition? Every Penn State student is getting fucked in the wallet by the NCAA. I agree with all the other penalties, but innocent Penn State students should not have to pay for the mistakes of the university.
Chayness,
Cry me a fucking river. Have a look at PSU’s financials. A lot of the donations received are not restricted, and a lot of what is restricted goes directly to student aid.
hey chayness, did they teach you about transfers at diddle U?
yea i’ll transfer so i can pay for 2 more years instead of 1. Even if the donations are not restricted it’s still apart of the same pool of money and they have to make up for the deficit somewhere. The only revenue they can control is the tuition. They can’t force people to donate money to pay for a $60 million fine.
mike felger you are hideous on facebook
Chayness,
First of all, I am not on Facebook. Second, Diddler U has a $1.3 billion endowment. Pretty sure that they can afford the $60 million. I realize that they can’t make people donate, but they can certainly cut costs. They might start by eliminating the Penn State kool-aid that everyone in Happy Valley loves so much.