Penn St Eligible for Postseason Immediately

I'd like them to anounce this if front of all the family's and kids (now adults) that were affected by this. What a fucking joke.

I don't get the "Everyone involved is gone" excuse. Sanctions like these are intended to make an example. That example here was supposed to be, "You let fucked-up shit go on within your knowledge, you will be caught and your program devastated by the consequences." Instead the only message sent now is, "Some of the worst shit imaginable can be going on in your program, if you let it slide and are eventually caught, don't worry: we'll slap you with some heavy penalties to make it look like we give a damn, then we'll gradually reduce them and finally just completely wipe them when no one's looking." 

Yeah, this thing has now officially blown over.

Oh, wait a minute:

http://www.hngn.com/articles/41431/20140904/jerry-sandusky-sued-by-anot…

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/08/no_news_is_well_no_n…

Their sanctions for covering up child rape systemically was shorter than Ohio State for tattoo gate and USC for Bush gate.  Neither of those schools, IIRC, even got a chance to get their punishments reduced.  Yet the worst of them all does.

[WALKS OVER TO TERRELLE PRYOR'S CORVETTE]

Everyone saying that the punishment wasn't fair and that football program didn't deserve to suffer does realize that the football program is just a big money making program for the school right? No punishment to football and no punishment to the school.

After the weekend's Big Ten debacle, Deleney stepped in to put pressure on lifting the ban because he needs at least one team to make it to a Bowl.

i feel the only reason that the NCAA lifted the ban was because of the BIG TEN blood bath on saturday.  Delany is worried that big ten won't fill bowl slots and needs Penn State to help fill a slot.  Why would they wait till after week 2 to lift the ban?  They could have lifted it before the season or afte week 1.  they waited till after the shit fest on saturday night. 

Maybe the NCAA will retroactively give Ohio their banned seasons back and crown them National Champions.

I think the NCAA is wrong to lift these...aside from being a terrible PR move.

I hope we lose to PSU even yet again this year so we can get new coaches. Get it over with.

Penn state is the school I hope loses every week regardless of who they play

Jerry Sandusky is in jail and PSU has cleaned up its program.  Any further punishment is just making the current team and students pay for Sandusky's vile acts.  If there is any legal proof of a cover-up, it belongs in the courts, not on the playing field.

I have no problem with letting the current team enjoy the fruits of its labor.

there's a simple test to see if PSU et al met their responsibilities. Imagine if McQuery walked in on a member of the media (who had locker room access) making rhythmic slapping noises with a kid in the showers. Would he leave? and then call his dad to ask what to do? Would JoPa wait a couple days and forward it, and never ask what happened? Would he tolerate seeing the perpetrator in his locker room after that? Of course not! In that case, they would have gone after the guy with relish, and call a press conference to self righteously proclaim to the world that this stuff doesn't fly at Penn state. They protected themselves and football at the expense of multiple kids. and the institution is getting away almost scot-free. Embarrassing.

NCAA must've seen a golden opportunity to release this news today. No one would focus on it while the Ray Rice ordeal played itself out.

I despise Penn State football and all of the Paterno apologists who continue to insist that their beloved coach never did anything wrong, but I really can't bring myself to have much of a problem with lifting the bowl ban. I realize I might get negged big time for this, but oh well.

What happened with Sandusky was a truly horrific act, and the people who helped cover for him are the lowest kind of scum to ever walk this earth. But is keeping the current football staff and players out of bowl games really going to do anything to mitigate or erase what happened? Hell no. You could've instituted a bowl ban and scholarships reductions for 20 years and it still wouldn't do anything to make the situation better. Those children were still molested. Those lives are still ruined. Bowl bans and scholarship reductions won't ever change one bit of that.

Nothing can undo what happened. You want justice served as much as it can be at this point? Make sure that those who were responsible for undertaking these acts or covering them up never see the outside of a jail cell for as long as they live. Have Penn State donate a sizeable portion, if not its entire portion of football proceeds to charities benefiting victims of sexual assault. Again, this is just my opinion and my beliefs, and I know some out there will strongly disagree with what I have to say, but I really never saw the point in punishing student athletes for something they had no role in committing.

All that being said, I hope we beat the ever loving shit out of Penn State in a few weeks.

We are Pedo U! They will justify it as fans. Sick!

Not Debating The Punishment again, but it does not seem right to reduce the penalties for good behavior when the 60 M$ fine has not been paid. It is court since PA politicians want all the money spent on programs in PA. Also, they circumvented the NCAA buy getting a game in Dublin--bowl game. The perjury trials for the president and AD have not yet been held.

I thought Saturday would be the nadir of my college football experience--but then this breaks out. I enjoy watching college football and what it entails (insert every college football cliche about pagentry and tradtion here). However, this is such a despicable "reward" for one of the most vile, grotesque scandals I've witnessed in my young college football life. When the Penn State ruling emerged, I wanted to see their program nuked--not because I hate them, but because it would send a message that football should never take priority over the sanctity of humans, especially children.

After the NCAA's paltry punishment, I chose not to watch any non-Michigan games--it just wasn't worth it. Two years ago my alma mater hired a gutter-dwelling coach--sure he brought wins, but we were the first school to offer him open arms shortly after his termination at his previous school for being caught in a web of deceit. Why football has such a huge, irrational sway over people is beyond me. It should never have the power that it possesses on college campuses. And this is getting close to the last straw for me. Too much bull shit for me to continue giving a damn.

And to those who say "think about the players and innocent people who are collateral damag": WHO GIVES A FUCK! Those players would have been recruited to go play at other schools; they all were given a free pass to transfer and play immediately. Also, so what if they don't get to play in a bowl game; plenty of players don't experience bowl games. Additionally, if you want to believe the NCAA spin, they are STUDENT-athletes. Their primary task should be earning a degree from a very good school--or is this also not an expectation? I have not sympathy for those players--yes they worked hard, but giving  them the opportunity to play in a bowl game and acting as if Penn State can return to the status quo, after what amounts to nearly a decade of covering up the Sandusky problem, is so ludicrous that I'm not even angry--I'm just ambivalent.

I never played football (well, not the American version), but I've read on here plenty of times about the lessons the game teaches you. Accountability to your teammates seems to be a common one. We'll it should be time that Penn State football demonstrate some accountability and sit out the post-season for the same duration that this scandal occurred. But it won't happen. So I hope they lose and remain out of the post-season for the next decade.

Wow!  The Big Ten must REALLY be bad this season if the NCAA has to pull a Lazarus on Penn State in order for the B1G to have SOME chance at postseason representation.

the ncaa!!!

Man the crowds were cheering in the streets of state college tonight and asking where is the statute?

What a vile and repulsive fan base.

I want nothing but horrible things to happen to that school, it's teams and fans. Fuck penn state

I have no idea how PSU and OSU get off so easy!

From Deadspin: Pictured: People who choose to celebrate the memory of a man who was more concerned with protecting his legacy than he was in protecting children who were being raped.

And the reaction in State College tonight proves exactly why they should have gotten the death penalty.