Penn St Eligible for Postseason Immediately

Submitted by michchi85 on

Not to be outdone by the NFL in their lack of punishment, the NCAA decides to end the punishment for the horrible things done by Penn St in the Sandusky incidents:

 

Due to Penn State’s progress in ensuring athletics dept functions with integrity, NCAA immediately restores football postseason eligibility.

— Inside the NCAA (@InsidetheNCAA) September 8, 2014

Mike Kenn

September 9th, 2014 at 6:54 AM ^

its kinda weird to see michigan fans questioning anything that happens at penn st considering we allowed our kicker to stay on the team for years after he raped a chick and the school covered it up. like wtf. 

freejs

September 9th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^

Massively bogus. I credit the version of events that says there wasn't the evidence to punish or expel Gibbons (true) prior to the change in standards pushed on the schools by the Education Department (true). Campus rape is a serious and complicated problem all across the country. At my beloved mother Yale, at Michigan, at Swarthmore, at Stanford, at MIT. What happened at Penn State is not part of a substantially disturbing but complicated nationwide phenomenon. What happened at Penn State is a moral abomination beyond what most of us could have dreamed possible. It lies far outside the bounds of the thorny, distressing, but uniform set of issues that afflict all college campuses. 

Now, whether I approve of Brady Hoke's handling of the whole matter can be a different story. But I already think he's a turd, so take my distaste with a grain of salt. But yes, it is yet another reason I believe he is unfit to lead this program.

And it must also be remembered that at the time of the incident, Gibbons was a useless freshman kicker who couldn't make a kick, while at the time of Sandusky's predations, he was a multiple national championship winning DC, the founder of linebacker U, and a man who was inextricably tied up in the legacy of Penn State's golden cow, Paterno.

I hope this answers your questions.  

Njia

September 9th, 2014 at 7:36 AM ^

Should anyone really be surprised that Nittany Lions fans would be glorifying the memory of a guy who covered up a scandal involving the rape of children? They didn't exactly take ownership of the issue when it all went down.

snarling wolverine

September 9th, 2014 at 11:22 AM ^

They should have been given the death penalty for a year.  That was the one punishment that fit the crime.  After a year they could have rebuilt how they saw fit, but they'd have been tarnished like SMU for a long time.  Instead, by making it about lost scholarships and bowls, the NCAA made it look like just another rules violation - and now even moreso.

 

You Only Live Twice

September 9th, 2014 at 4:06 PM ^

NCAA is a joke and the timing of this announcement lifting sanctions on PSU is for no other reason than to hide behind the Rice story.  PSU's program should have been heavily sanctioned for 10 years.  What happened to those children in the locker rooms on their campus in their football facility, by their coaches, is so unspeakable that no rational person should need a rule saying "oh by the way coaches are not allowed to rape kids" in order for the actions to be sanctionable.  I'm not swayed by the argument that the crime was somehow separate and distinct from football.  It wasn't.  it was a crime AND it involved the football program.  Tatgate had stricter sanctions!   I'd rather lose all 12 games than support an institution where this was allowed to happen and then covered up. I'm also not swayed by the argument that the innocent parties should not be affected, such as current and future players.  That's the thing about crimes, other people are affected.  Players can transfer to other schools.  The fan base would indeed be affected.  Maybe then they wouldn't be so eager to put up a statue in honor of a pedophile. I don't care if JoPa didn't actually commit the crime.  He was the HC and he made a very deliberate decision as to what was more important to him.