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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
To use a parallel we are all familiar with (unfortunately), the Swift Current Broncos were not contracted because of Graham James, despite very similar circumstances. There were individuals who did not do the right thing, ask the right questions, etc., but those were failings of individuals associated with the Broncos, not an inherent corruption of the team. Similarly here, it's not "Penn State football" as such that is inherently corrupt, just individuals associated with it. If you clean out all the individuals and replace them with "good people", Penn State football will be no worse than any other football program in the nation (leaving aside general issues common to many programs). This could have happened at FSU or Michigan or Alabana, but the individuals in question happened to be working for/associated with PSU. PSU football will be devastated going forward regardless, but I do not see this as a flaw in the institution, as much as much as personal character flaws of individuals.
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I don't know about that. The Broncos are a private, for-profit business focused entirely on hockey.
Penn State is a, umm, state institution with 95 thousand students, a huge endowment (thanks, wikipedia) and a reputation and responsibility that goes far beyond (despite outward appearances) football.
The whole school is going to take a beating on this for years, if not decades. For PR purposes alone they should shut the whole football program down just to show that the football team can't taint the whole school, even though it already has.
And besides, they are going to suck anyway, and won't be bringing any prestige to the school for an awful long time.