Penn State Punishment Open Thread (part 2)

PSU will be down for ten years.

The hit from the Big Ten is a nice little added sting.

From a recruiting standpoint, the main beneficiaries will be Ohio State, ND and Michigan I bet.  Ohio State will be top recruiter in Pennsylvania, and that will also open more spots for Ohio and Pennsylvania kids for UM and ND.  MSU should benefit as well.

are already available on bigten.org.
Penn state is censured, banned from big ten championship for four years, probation and their share of bowl revenue will go to victims.

From the BTN website:

Here are the conference’s additional sanctions on Penn State:

• Censure:  The accepted findings support the conclusion that our colleagues at Penn State, individuals that we have known and with whom we have worked for many years, have egregiously failed on many levels—morally, ethically and potentially criminally.  They have failed their great university, their faculty and staff, their students and alumni, their community and state—and they have failed their fellow member institutions in the Big Ten Conference.  For these failures, committed at the highest level of the institution, we hereby condemn this conduct and officially censure Penn State.
• Probation:  The Big Ten Conference will be a party to the Athletic Integrity Agreement referenced in the NCAA release, and will work closely with the NCAA and Penn State to ensure complete compliance with its provisions over the 5 year term of the Agreement.
• Ineligibility:  As referenced in the NCAA release, Penn State’s football team will be ineligible for postseason bowl games.  It will also be ineligible for Big Ten Conference Championship Games for four years, a period of time that runs concurrently with the NCAA postseason bowl ban imposed this morning.
• Fine:  Because Penn State will be ineligible for bowl games for the next four years, it will therefore be ineligible to receive its share of Big Ten Conference bowl revenues over those same four years.  That money, estimated to be approximately $13 million, will be donated to established charitable organizations in Big Ten communities dedicated to the protection of children.

I complained about the removal of secondary PSU threads in the other open thread, but I don't think this is the solution either.  The are a number of interesting/important angles of this - player transfers (or recruits' commitment switches), Big Ten division balance, the fairness of the penalties, breaking news, etc. - and those conversations should be teased apart from one another.  Otherwise, it's an unreadable mess.  This thread just prevents you from having to click "last page" in the other thread.

While I enjoy the Herd usually, I was just listening to him on the way to work about an hour ago, and he was claiming that the rest of the Big Ten fans were taking joy in this punishment this morning when we shouldn't.  Just shut it, Colin.  Nobody is taking joy in PSU getting hammered by the NCAA (okay, not nobody but barely anyone that I see).  No Big Ten fans have ever had an unhealthy hate for PSU like OSU fans do with Michigan.  

So who wins/loses the 2010 game between PSU and OSU?

Looks like players will be allowed to transfer within the conference.

I would give a large sum of money to switch divisions with Ohio now. They're coming out of this in a great spot.

No realignment.

IMHO maybe just take the two best teams this year for the B1G champ game this year since the east is down two.

Is this standard practice, did Ohio State get their share last season?

Ohio is gona poach a few players Im sure and will be in a 2 horse race for a long time to come in their division. They certainly are going to make out pretty well

Can PSU still afford to start a hockey program? Pegula has covered the start-up costs, but can they afford to add another sport that is likely to be a big money loser for the first few years?