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alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts) Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:33 PM Sep 2014

NCAA Drops Penn State's Postseason Ban; All Scholarships Back Next Year

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State will be eligible for the postseason this year and will have all its scholarships returned next year, after the NCAA agreed Monday afternoon to again reduce sanctions stemming from the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Penn State's athletics integrity monitor, former Sen. George Mitchell, recommended both actions in his second annual report that gauges progress made by the university. Minutes after the report was announced, the NCAA said it would follow both recommendations immediately.

The NCAA's decision cleared the way for coach James Franklin and Penn State to target a bowl game this season.
"Penn State has made remarkable progress over the past year," said South Carolina president Harris Pastides, a member of the NCAA's board of directors. "The board members and I believe the executive committee's decision is the right one. It allows both the university and the association to continue to move toward a common goal of ensuring that educating, nurturing and protecting young people is a top priority."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11489258/ncaa-drops-postseason-ban-penn-state-nittany-lions

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Postseason eligible for THIS season. Perhaps yesterday's other games in the Big Ten convinced them!

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NCAA Drops Penn State's Postseason Ban; All Scholarships Back Next Year (Original Post) alcibiades_mystery Sep 2014 OP

You can smell the greed wafting up from the statement......money trumps justice....are they hoping Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #1

Yep, that appears to be the case theHandpuppet Sep 2014 #3

Football "scholarships", there is the problem right there...why not just call it what it is, salary. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #6

WTF? Those implicated are no longer there, and the present students shouldn't be punished. n/t Avalux Sep 2014 #12

Universities can just clear out whoever was involved and face no consequences? kcr Sep 2014 #16

Having a mediocre football team is not making students suffer. What are they studying? Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #21

At last Boom Sound 416 Sep 2014 #20

Yet USC is still short on scholarships.... Cali_Democrat Sep 2014 #2

Good thing a few players didn't get tattoos theHandpuppet Sep 2014 #4

NC$$. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #7

Gee, maybe PSU complied with the requirements and rulings. Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #5

I agree with you and please see post #2. n/t jaysunb Sep 2014 #8

This. n/t Comrade Grumpy Sep 2014 #9

Just as a note, the OP had no comment on the ruling, positive or negative alcibiades_mystery Sep 2014 #10

Gee, I guess when a man kills someone, and if he's married, joeybee12 Sep 2014 #11

WTF are you talking about? nt Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #13

Maybe if you read your pst then mine, it might click.... joeybee12 Sep 2014 #14

Who is married to whom in your scenario? Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #15

Your post is the one that's nonsense, you're an apologist for child molesters joeybee12 Sep 2014 #17

I guess I'm not as emotionally invested as you. Dreamer Tatum Sep 2014 #19

I think it's pretty clear kcr Sep 2014 #18

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. You can smell the greed wafting up from the statement......money trumps justice....are they hoping

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:46 PM

Sep 2014

folks just forget?

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)

3. Yep, that appears to be the case

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:52 PM

Sep 2014

Disgusting.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

6. Football "scholarships", there is the problem right there...why not just call it what it is, salary.

Reply to theHandpuppet (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:54 PM

Sep 2014

Avalux

(35,015 posts)

12. WTF? Those implicated are no longer there, and the present students shouldn't be punished. n/t

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:16 PM

Sep 2014

kcr

(15,317 posts)

16. Universities can just clear out whoever was involved and face no consequences?

Reply to Avalux (Reply #12)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:34 PM

Sep 2014

Present students don't have to go to that school.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

21. Having a mediocre football team is not making students suffer. What are they studying?

Reply to Avalux (Reply #12)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:00 PM

Sep 2014

Boom Sound 416

(4,185 posts)

20. At last

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:47 PM

Sep 2014

We agree.

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

2. Yet USC is still short on scholarships....

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:49 PM

Sep 2014

after their player was caught taking gifts 10 YEARS AGO. Massive sanctions, bowl bans, scholarship reductions....etc...etc....the sanctions were never lifted.

Because a player took gifts and the NCAA felt that the school should have been more aware.....

Penn State? Their coach was raping children and the school knew about it....but it's all good now!!!

No more sanctions!

What a joke.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)

4. Good thing a few players didn't get tattoos

Reply to Cali_Democrat (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:54 PM

Sep 2014

Seriously, it's plain to see where the NCAA's priorities lie, isn't it?

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

7. NC$$.

Reply to theHandpuppet (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:55 PM

Sep 2014

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)

5. Gee, maybe PSU complied with the requirements and rulings.

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 04:54 PM

Sep 2014

Maybe they took the required number of pees and craps on Paterno's grave and noted that Sandusky is gone.

How many uninvolved people are supposed to pay for others' crimes, and for how long?

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)

8. I agree with you and please see post #2. n/t

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:01 PM

Sep 2014

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

9. This. n/t

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 05:12 PM

Sep 2014

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)

10. Just as a note, the OP had no comment on the ruling, positive or negative

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:12 PM

Sep 2014

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

11. Gee, I guess when a man kills someone, and if he's married,

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:14 PM

Sep 2014

well, we can't have the wife suffer for his crimes, can we? There are always the innocent who suffer because of what others have done, and when you don't punish the indiivudal, you're sending a clear message that child molestation aint' sucha big deal...absolutely disgusting.

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)

13. WTF are you talking about? nt

Reply to joeybee12 (Reply #11)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:29 PM

Sep 2014

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

14. Maybe if you read your pst then mine, it might click....

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #13)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:31 PM

Sep 2014

Pretty phucking obvious.

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)

15. Who is married to whom in your scenario?

Reply to joeybee12 (Reply #14)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:32 PM

Sep 2014

I'm sorry - your post looks like nonsense to me. Maybe you can say what you mean clearly and crisply?

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

17. Your post is the one that's nonsense, you're an apologist for child molesters

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #15)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:36 PM

Sep 2014

and for a school that tried to cover it up...in any crime, innocent people suffer, like a wife whose husband goes to prison for murder..she didn't do it, she suffers...and let me expand, then give every fucking scholarship back to USC and any and every school that committed some sort of violation, because in your mind, no one should ever be held responsible...effing ridiculous.

Dreamer Tatum

(10,926 posts)

19. I guess I'm not as emotionally invested as you.

Reply to joeybee12 (Reply #17)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:40 PM

Sep 2014

But I don't see why everyone has to keep paying when the people involved are either dead or have been
punished.

I'm not the sort of person who demands that other people wail in shame because they walked the same ground
as monsters.

And in any case I wasn't aware that Penn State raped any kid. Sandusky did...he's in jail. Paterno covered it up,
and (spoiler alert) he's dead.

Time to move on.

kcr

(15,317 posts)

18. I think it's pretty clear

Reply to Dreamer Tatum (Reply #13)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:39 PM

Sep 2014

Some people seem to think that because it's a university it shouldn't be punished because innocent people will be affected by the punishment. But that ignores the innocent people who will be hurt when institutions realize they are immune from punishment under such a system.

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