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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
The NCAA penalties will hurt people well beyond the football program and the university.
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The Penn State football program as a first rate contender is done and over. SMU that received much less punishment never recovered. These penalties are designed to harm the football program. Only the trustees (and Sandusky's wife) are getting off easy.
The $60million penalty comes at the expense of Penn State's (31?) other varsity athletic programs. Trustees will see no harm to their budgets.
All Penn State scholarship players are open game for all other schools. For example, if a school is limited to only 60 scholarships and recruits two Penn State players. Then the school can have 62 recruited players on scholarship. The Penn State football program, one of the few profitable ones in college sports, will not recover. The trustees did absolutely nothing to protect it. Suggesting trustees were sacrificing the entire athletic department to not be tainted by this scandal and their decades of inaction.
Would the trustees have protected an honest janitor that reported pedophilia? Of course not. That was the problem.