A New Era for College Football
Yesterday the president of the NCAA Mark Emmert levied some pretty severe sanctions on Penn State following the release of the Freeh report. His sanctions include a 4 year post season ban, $60 million dollar fine with the money going towards organizations that help with child abuse and reductions in scholarships. While this isn't the so called "Death Penalty" to the football program it is a very severe punishment and one that I do think is very fitting. From the Freeh report it has come out that Joe Paterno and the rest of the athletic department actually knew about the allegations and did nothing because they did not want to harm the reputation of the school, well guess what the reputation of the school is ruined and Paterno's legacy is tarnished beyond a shadow of a doubt. If back in the day when Joe Paterno first learned about the allegations that Sandusky was molesting boys and using his status as a coach of the Penn State program to find more victims, had he gone to the authorities and told them what he knew then I would believe that Joe Paterno cared about being a model citizen and a decent human being. Yet instead he decided that they shouldn't go to the authorities because that would tarnish the reputation of Penn State.
I know my friends who went to Penn State or are fans are not going to agree with me but I do support the students and the athletes who are now having to pay the price for the coaching staff and the athletic department. Yet the NCAA was right because something had to be done and a punishment had to be levied and while other writers are saying there is now a price tag for being a school that harbored a child molestor, I don't think the NCAA thinks of it that way. Mark Emmert himself said that nothing was going to give back what was taken from the children that Sandusky molested but that a statement had to be made that the NCAA was not going to allow a school's athletic department to walk away after showing how morally corrupt they were.
I hope you enjoyed this post and keep following my love affair with sports.
I know my friends who went to Penn State or are fans are not going to agree with me but I do support the students and the athletes who are now having to pay the price for the coaching staff and the athletic department. Yet the NCAA was right because something had to be done and a punishment had to be levied and while other writers are saying there is now a price tag for being a school that harbored a child molestor, I don't think the NCAA thinks of it that way. Mark Emmert himself said that nothing was going to give back what was taken from the children that Sandusky molested but that a statement had to be made that the NCAA was not going to allow a school's athletic department to walk away after showing how morally corrupt they were.
I hope you enjoyed this post and keep following my love affair with sports.
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