Emmert, five years later, defended the decision with the same fervor he did that day in Indianapolis, Indiana. The NCAA, he reiterated this month, had every right to interpret the NCAA Constitution to penalize Penn State.
"I was surprised, I guess, by some of the reaction that the worst thing that could happen to the university was the football team losing some scholarships," Emmert said, "rather than the worst thing that could happen to the university is to have children raped in the lockerroom."
Have the football coaches and players from 2011-16 been adequately compensated for their pain? Certainly hope so, because they had to endure so much pain, it must have been torture.