Should the Penn State football program get the death penalty?

[TommyC]

Originally Posted by Patrick D from 83

That's actually incorrect, every vacated win during that time frame is a game in which there was no winner. The other team doesn't get the win, PSU simply can't claim victory in it.

That's crazy the NCAA wouldn't award the schools whom they played victories.

[Patrick D from 83]

Originally Posted by TommyC

That's crazy the NCAA wouldn't award the schools whom they played victories.

Its not unique to this situation. When USC recently vacated their wins the same thing happened. There technically is no 2004 national champion.

Don't even get me started on vacated wins though. I have a friend who is a huge USC fan and told him I thought that their vacated wins was stupid back when that happened. Everybody knows USC won that championship, vacating it isn't going to change what people remember.

[Morning Star]

Originally Posted by Johnny Cupcakes

It's a shame how many people are being punished over this because of the actions of a few, BUT....something big had to happen. The NCAA absolutely had to make an example out of Penn State in this situation, and show that behavior like this is in no way tolerated. I bet if someone at another college finds out that one of his assistants is molesting little boys, he wont try to sweep it under the rug. This may be a pretty harsh punishment, but it needed to happen.

I understand this will be hard on the new staff they are bringing in but I think they should have been punished more..I also think they were too hard on Ohio State and Jim Tressal..Penn State was only punished 3 more years than Ohio State..My 2 cents!!!!!!!!

[Ron Mexico]

Originally Posted by Morning Star

I understand this will be hard on the new staff they are bringing in but I think they should have been punished more..I also think they were too hard on Ohio State and Jim Tressal..Penn State was only punished 3 more years than Ohio State..My 2 cents!!!!!!!!

No one cares about O$U. They got the punishment that they deserved just like Penn State did. If anything, they got off easy. Something similar to what happened at Ohio State happend at USC, and it resulted in a MUCH worse punishment.

Comparing it with this issue is weak though....

[JS-Steelerfan]

The legal penalty for what happened at PSU includes jail time and a potential of hundreds of millions of dollars paid in civil suits. Seems to me that those are some pretty strong deterrents.

Is the destruction of a football team really a stronger or more necessary deterrent than that? For Emmert and company to suggest so belies their efforts to show that football isn't the most important thing in life.

[duke0476]

Creepy....

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jerry...ber-2-16863043

[Dmac18]

Originally Posted by duke0476

Creepy....

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jerry...ber-2-16863043

Man that is creepy he even said i love you at the end. Hope he get's the treatment in prison sick *******

[BigPapaKain]

Originally Posted by Dmac18

Man that is creepy he even said i love you at the end. Hope he get's the treatment in prison sick *******

The treatment for that kind of crime comes at the end of shank.

Originally Posted by Johnny Cupcakes

No one cares about O$U.

102,000+ fans every home game beg to differ. Just because you don't care about something doesn't mean 'everybody' feels the same, and I find it a bit insulting that you'd compare a college actively paying players (USC) to a coach being stupid and covering for his players (OSU). The punishments were fine then. It is odd that a crime as sickening as what Sandusky did and Penn State's ensuing cover up only warranted 3 more years of punishment, however.

[whodey21]

Originally Posted by Patrick D from 83

Its not unique to this situation. When USC recently vacated their wins the same thing happened. There technically is no 2004 national champion.

Don't even get me started on vacated wins though. I have a friend who is a huge USC fan and told him I thought that their vacated wins was stupid back when that happened. Everybody knows USC won that championship, vacating it isn't going to change what people remember.

I've always thought vacating wins was stupid. From a legal standpoint, I've always wondered what might become of a class-action lawsuit if people who bought tickets for a game that "didn't happen" demanded a refund.