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Yes. PSU football should get the DP. The coaches AND the administration covered this up for years. Recruiting cheating pales in comparison to that.
Recruiting violations result in sanctions because it gives a football team an undeserved advantage. The same thing would apply to football players who are given passing grades they do not deserve in order to protect their eligibility. It's all about keeping a level playing field among the competing teams.
Different violations call for different sanctions. For the rape of a young boy, civil and criminal sanctions are appropriate. Punishing the entire football program targets the wrong people. Where there ethical violations? OF course. But the violations had noting to do with the operation of the football program.
The rape of a young boy, however detestable, has nothing whatsoever to do with fairness on he football field, and the NCAA should not and will not get involved.
Penn State's program should be made to walk to the athletics program graveyard, forced to dig its own grave next to the own of SMU, forced to kneel with its arms held behind, shot in the neck, the body tumbled into the grave, lye spread over it, then the hole filled in.
In fact, the program should not be permitted to be resurrected, ever.
The NCAA needs to demonstrate that they have their priorities in order
They can give a death penalty for some petty recruiting violations but not for covering up a little boy being raped in the shower?
Penn State made a football coach bigger than the school itself, accountable to no person and no moral imperative, and now we see the devastating consequences.
North Carolina sold its esteemed academic soul for the pursuit of greater athletic glory, and now we see a proud institution embarrassed and divided.
Yet amid these raw cautionary tales about the dangers of misplaced priority on college campuses, along comes this news item: Oregon is dumping $68 million of Nike kingpin Phil Knight's money into a new "football operations center." Among the accoutrements you get for $68 mil, the (Eugene) Register-Guard reported, is a private hot tub and steam room for the coaches, "each with a waterproofed video center so they can watch games while taking a soak."
As long as Chip Kelly keeps winning Pac 12 titles, nothing else seems to matter. (Getty Images)
While taking a soak in that absolutely necessary hot tub, I suppose coach Chip Kelly could cue up the largely useless video his school paid $25,000 for from "talent scout" Will Lyles, who was closely tied to Ducks running backs Lache Seastrunk and LaMichael James. That's part of an ongoing NCAA investigation into Oregon football but who really wants to think about that when Kelly has won three consecutive Pac-12 championships? On with the building projects.
This is the inherent problem with college athletics: No amount of scandal and no level of embarrassment seem capable of stopping the charge to make sports programs wealthier, more powerful and more disconnected from the universities that give them a name, location, identity and built-in following.
Penn State's program should be made to walk to the athletics program graveyard, forced to dig its own grave next to the own of SMU, forced to kneel with its arms held behind, shot in the neck, the body tumbled into the grave, lye spread over it, then the hole filled in.
In fact, the program should not be permitted to be resurrected, ever.
WHY?
The Southern Methodist University football scandal was an incident in which the football program at Southern Methodist University was investigated and punished for massive violations of NCAA rules and regulations. The most serious violation was the maintenance of a slush fund used for "under the table" payments to players from the mid-1970s through 1986. This culminated in the NCAA handing down the so-called "death penalty" by canceling SMU's entire 1987 schedule. SMU was allowed to return for an abbreviated 1988 season, but opted to sit that season out as well after school officials determined it would be impossible to field a viable team.
The PSU football program is one of the best. Some pervert fucked it up. Its no worse than having the MSM promote shit like "My Two Dads" ?! If we're going to be Puritanical, don't have a double-standard.
