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libertadrocks said:What are yalls opinion on it?
I would have levied the death penalty. It may take awhile, but I think a school with the tradition of Penn State will eventually overcome the penalties and work its way back into the top tier of football programs.
If there was ever a case to be made for the death penalty, this was it. IMO we will never see it again.
Ram Quixote said:Not related to football? Because Paterno and Sandusky were involved, men who were supposed to be setting examples of integrity for all their student-athletes, this has everything to do with football. That's one of the reasons why all those W's were vacated (and the NCAA didn't want a disgraced HC owning the record for most wins).
What he said.Selassie I said:An on-field advantage WAS gained by the cover-up...
Don't think for a minute that recruiting wouldn't have been effected negatively if the actions of coach molester had been revealed at the time they were discovered.
Selassie I said:An on-field advantage WAS gained by the cover-up...
Don't think for a minute that recruiting wouldn't have been effected negatively if the actions of coach molester had been revealed at the time they were discovered.
If the people in charge had done the right thing from the start, there still would have been people asking how long they knew about it. The irony is that the coverup was started because they hoped to avoid this, and the coverup made the entire situation exponentially worse.JdashSTL said:Selassie I said:An on-field advantage WAS gained by the cover-up...
Don't think for a minute that recruiting wouldn't have been effected negatively if the actions of coach molester had been revealed at the time they were discovered.
Wow. I never even thought of that till now.
JdashSTL said:Selassie I said:An on-field advantage WAS gained by the cover-up...
Don't think for a minute that recruiting wouldn't have been effected negatively if the actions of coach molester had been revealed at the time they were discovered.
Wow. I never even thought of that till now.
I don't see it that way. Losing on a technicality doesn't erase the memories of winning. The players know what happened on the field. PSU, the coaching staff and the alumni (sans the student athletes) take that one on the chin. You won't hear any of the teams that were granted the reversal bragging about it either.Angry Ram said:JdashSTL said:Selassie I said:An on-field advantage WAS gained by the cover-up...
Don't think for a minute that recruiting wouldn't have been effected negatively if the actions of coach molester had been revealed at the time they were discovered.
Wow. I never even thought of that till now.
Me neither, but I still don't agree with the players that didn't know about it to be stripped of their Ws.
If it had been exposed earlier, and Paterno came clean, to me he would've been seen as doing the right thing. Meaning he saw it, reported it, and Sandusky would pay the consequence. Covering up just made it bad on Paterno.