Penn State fined 2.4 million over guess who, Sandusky
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The Cult will have an excuse of course. But if you read through to the end you find out it is about more than Sandusky. Paterno had gone off the rails. The child raping was only part of the problem. There was no institutional control. Which IS an NCAA violation.
"The school's athletic department was also scrutinized by federal investigators, who said then-head coach Joe Paterno once had his secretary email Spanier and Curley to say he would take care of disciplining players involved in a fight at an off-campus apartment building in 2007.
Paterno then had a text message sent to players telling them that if they went to the university's judicial affairs to answer code of conduct complaints they'd be "thrown off the team," the report said.
In 2009, a football player who stood accused of a serious sex crime was called into the Office of Student Conduct for an interview. According to Student Conduct officials, the player's first question was, "Does football know I'm here?'"
.Paterno then had a text message sent to players telling them that if they went to the university's judicial affairs to answer code of conduct complaints they'd be "thrown off the team," the report said.
In 2009, a football player who stood accused of a serious sex crime was called into the Office of Student Conduct for an interview. According to Student Conduct officials, the player's first question was, "Does football know I'm here?'"
This is the university itself, not the athletic department. I wonder where the money comes from to pay the fine.
How Penn State Football did not receive the Death Penalty is still beyond my comprehension. This is just more proof of the culture that was involved. The fact that they have seemed to overcome the scandal and now are in the top 20 makes me doubt that bad deeds get punished. See Baylor, UNC etc.
Unreal. The NCAA should investigate them off this alone. Paterno is the biggest thug to ever coach sports.
RU could have doubled its goal of 100million in the R Build Fund with the penalties PSU has already paid out.
So the Sandusky part is meaningless? The parts about paterno once again shows how he did his best to protect the program which leads credibility to him turning a blind eye regarding Sandusky.
And RU got raked over the coals for a fight and a robbery that (1) was investigated by authorities (2) the University and football program fully cooperated with and (3) it was brought to light in the press as soon as the charges were filed; and (4) the players involved were thrown off the team and not allowed to return. Yet RU was a dumpster fire.
Other programs, OTOH, keep a lid on their dumpster fires, and if they win big and have a "tradition", that keeps the smoke from rising.
Other programs, OTOH, keep a lid on their dumpster fires, and if they win big and have a "tradition", that keeps the smoke from rising.
i understand that and im not saying the Sandusky stuff means nothing just that the headlines are sensationalized at best. the 2007 fight has a whole other set of circumstances that is too long to explain but i agree it wasn't Paterno's best moment.
From the AP:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fe...tate-a-record-dollar24m/ar-AAjRp3h?li=BBnbfcL
Interesting quotes at the end including a text message to team members from JoePa and another from a football player via a member of the school's judicial committee.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fe...tate-a-record-dollar24m/ar-AAjRp3h?li=BBnbfcL
Interesting quotes at the end including a text message to team members from JoePa and another from a football player via a member of the school's judicial committee.
Additionally
Mike Mcqueary (former PSU coach) recently won a judgement again Penn State for $7.3 million.
The accolades just keep on coming.
HAIL TO PITT!!!!
Mike Mcqueary (former PSU coach) recently won a judgement again Penn State for $7.3 million.
The accolades just keep on coming.
HAIL TO PITT!!!!
Paterno was an evil man. Likely he had a streak of pedo in him too. You think Paterno's wife had not heard about what Sandusky was doing. She and Sandusky's wife both turned a blind eye to the evil that was allowed to be done.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USED/bulletins/16ff1a3
As I read this, the fines appear to be for a systematic failure to implement the Clery Act, which included failures relating to Sandusky.
As I read this, the fines appear to be for a systematic failure to implement the Clery Act, which included failures relating to Sandusky.
No one here, or in the article, is saying Sandusky "stuff" is unimportant. You have to go to BWI and Black Shoes Diary for that sort of nonsense. What the facts uncovered by the US Dept of Ed. show is the depravity of harboring a child raper is only a part of the problem with the Football Program and the University it ran.
Don't come around here telling us about hyped headlines. We know how that works.
Yes, this is incomprehensible, to the NCAA, Big Ten Office, Judge Freeh, members of the Penn State board that voted to fire Paterno. Only those in the hive can understand the special circumstance that is Nittany Football.
Candidate for understatement of the month right there.
The point is the fine is not just in response to the Sandusky incident but indicative of a complete systemic failure of the entire Penn State organization. It does not minimize the Sandusky acts.
It could be put to rest tomorrow with a general admission it happened, some regret by the fans and a heartfelt apology. But no they are denying the facts and still enabling the environment that did this. The problem is just as much the enabling as the crime. It won't end with Sandusky's death.
leaving a penalty of $2,372,500 for non-Sandusky violations. Which by the way had previously gotten no attention. The irony is you just made the problem bigger
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