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Originally Posted by jonumberone
I'm not in favor of any punishment for Penn State!
While it was a heinous crime, and the cover-up is reprehensible, those involved are no longer involved with the program.
Punishing Penn State football will only hurt the students and slow the rebuilding of a program, that is desperate to heal.
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Originally Posted by CigarNut
This is a civil matter, not an NCAA matter and the civil authorities are pursuing and prosecuting as they should. The NCAA should stick to sports. Just my  |
The coaches and players represent the team and university with their actions. They are always in the spotlight.
What your saying is like saying if a football player got caught selling drugs, let the court handle it, there should be no punishment from the NCAA.
I'm sorry, but I disagree.
When you are a player or coach, you agree to abide by the rules and set a good example. When you mess up, your going to have to pay for the consequences.
If this happened with professors at Penn state, there would be no NCAA punishment as they are not affiliated with sports obviously.
The NCAA is the government of the athletic student body and coaching staff. If someone messes up, it's their job to take correct actions if necessary.
This sort of thing happens all the time with players. They get a DUI or in a fight or drugs charges. They obviously have court but often, if the coaches don't deal with it like they should, the NCAA will step in with a proper punishment.
I would be curious to see if the players have to sign any sort of contract once they star playing any NCAA sports basically saying that they accept the NCAA as their governing system and they agree to this and that................yadda yadda yadda.