Nimreitz

Bilas has sent out a couple of tweets on this. Penn State accepted these voluntarily to avoid NCAA imposed sanctions which was guaranteed to be a multi year death penalty. There's no decision to appeal here.

E.H. Munro

Honestly the sanctions are useless feel good bullshit that do nothing to rectify the problem and punish the wrong people. The NCAA wants to take Paterno out of the record book? Excellent idea. He doesn't deserve his position. They want to ban Penn State from benefitting from bowl appearances financially? Also an excellent idea. That money should be set aside for Sandusky's victims. A $60 million fine? Why should the people of Pennsylvania be forking over $60 million to a bunch of fat white guys that already make too much money? Shouldn't that money be going to the ****ing victims?

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Geaux Tigers

Amen. And the payments should be structured in such a way to come 100% from Penn State's non-taxpayer holdings...usually oh I dont know a football program. I dont know the rules at Penn but I know LSU's entire athletic budget comes from the Tiger Athletic Foundation which is not supported by taxpayer money. Football and to a lesser extent basketball basically paying almost entirely for the other sports. LSU Football makes more than Louisiana State University anyway.

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I thought the 60 million dollar fine had to come from athletics program revenue and it was all going to youth charities.

The victims will sue independently, and that money will likely come from the taxpayers.

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Yeah, and the $60 million can't be taken from the non-revenue sports either.

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E.H. Munro

It doesn't matter where the $60 million comes from or where it's going to. Every dollar wasted on this meaningless bullshit is either one dollar less for the actual victims or one more dollar that will need to be taken from people that had nothing to do with this (i.e. the taxpayers). I'm not objecting to $60 million being paid out to Sandusky's victims, they deserve all that and more for what that bastard did. But the meaningless feel good bullshit fine will materially reduce what they're going to get. It is literally unconscionable that the NCAA would do this, even for a gang of sociopaths like them.

(And just to be crystal clear here, what I'm saying is that if the NCAA had set a floor on the damages that Penn State paid out to the victims, I'd be fine with it, but they're not. They're giving PSU's lawyers the chance to argue in front of a judge/arbitrator that their NCAA imposed "penalty" should be accounted as part of their penalty thus materially damaging the victims of child rape. And all so that a bunch of overpaid underworked psychos can publicly congratulate themselves for "caring".)

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Nimreitz

Penn State isn't really a public school.

E.H. Munro

I don't think that will be anyone's position when the final tab comes due on damages.

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Nimreitz

I think it absolutely will be the government's position when the tab comes due on damages.

E.H. Munro

Yeah, but it won't be the university's and it won't be the plaintiffs' lawyers. And if the state of Pennsylvania did get away with renouncing PSU's debt this would make the actions of the NCAA that much more despicable as it would really damage the ability of the actual ****ing victims to get compensated.

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Nimreitz

I don't know, the endowment is nearly $2 billion. From a very brief Wikipedia perusal, it looks like the state of Pennsylvania has asserted private/public depending on which benefits them at the time. Considering all of the suits will come under state law, I doubt the taxpayers will be on the hook for a dime.

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E.H. Munro

This is just wrong on so many levels.

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Krstic All-Star

I am thoroughly sick of ESPN's loooong and coddling interviews with Jay Paterno this morning.

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Dornado

In all of the coverage of the Paterno family report I haven't heard anything specifically absolving Paterno of responsibility in this mess... mostly the Paterno family and now Phil Knight, in an overtly coordinated PR move, calling the Freeh report a "failure" and "unsubstantiated".

The Jay Paterno interview was hard to watch... he was even trying to back track off of Joe Paterno's comments that he "wished he'd done more"... doubling down on behalf of good ol' JoePa. Quite the publicity tour... my guess is that the Penn State fans will hear what they want to hear and that for almost everyone else it will just serve as another reminder of how ****ed up that situation was and how Joe Paterno may have been the only person with the power to stop it.

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