dionthesocialist:

NCAA hits Penn State with $60 million fine, vacates Paterno’s wins from 1998-2011 - Sports - The Boston Globe

cgdageek:

liquidiousfleshbag:

Pennsylvania State University was fined $60 million as college sports’ governing body penalized the school for its handling of a child sex-abuse case involving assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. It avoided the stiffest punishment, a shutdown of the football program that was at the center of the scandal.

The school also was stripped of all its wins from 1998 through 2011, barred from postseason games for four years and lost 20 total scholarships annually for four seasons, according to a release from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

holy fuck

““One of the grave dangers of our love of sports is that the sports themselves become too big to fail,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said at a televised news conference in Indianapolis.

The NCAA statement said Penn State’s leadership had perpetuated a “football-first culture that ultimately enabled serial child sex abuse to occur.”

football first don’t fly

Stripping the wins may be harsh, but lets remember that a great part of Penn State is it’s reputation and winning history. The school’s reputation is tarnished because of the people who ran it, and relied so heavily on those very wins for clout and reputation. I think this really sends the message. Not fair to the players, but I feel this sends a solid long-run warning to other schools who are doing the very same thing Penn State did.

11 months ago on July 23, 2012 at 09:04am
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