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Originally Posted by gargamel
These allegations had nothing to do with football though. A "football program" has a problem if players are improperly recruited. It has a problem if players are taking performance enhancing drugs. It has a problem if players are betting on games that they're playing in. It has a problem if players are getting paid. It has a problem if players are allowed to play when they should be academically ineligible. Those are all things that were covered in the mandatory lectures that I had to attend during my freshman year of college in order be be an NCAA athlete.
You know what they didn't tell us? Don't get molested. Because that's not a football problem. That's not a problem with the program. That's a serious issue with the individual who commits those heinous acts and with anyone who looked the other way, but I guarantee that Nebraska isn't complaining that Penn State has an unfair advantage this week because Sandusky was a predator and other coaches didn't stop him. Why? Because that isn't a problem with the "football program;" it's a problem with some people involved with the football program.
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I'm going to disagree with you, not in principle, but in practice.
The NCAA has the same problem as Joe Paterno. In the letter of the law so far this isn't a violation of their rules, in the same way Joe did what he was legally required, but what this is is a huge cloud once again hanging over all college football.
It is yet another clear sign that college sports are a seperate and entirely uncontrolled law unto themselves with wholly to much power and money within the colleges.
So the NCAA is right now trying to work out what makes it look better, doing nothing and claiming it had nothing to do with them, purely an internal and Penn State Affair, or find a way to crack down on the school to make it look like they give a damn and are going to clean up the mess, it is pretty much a PR choice though in the end. If they think they will look better cracking down on the program they will find an 'in'.
In fact I would go so far as to guess that the NCAA and Penn States legal and PR firms are actively collaberating to try and do some joint damage control right now, I could see them agreeing to some kind of program suspension that the college can go along with to try and get the stench off both of them.