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Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan
I am the only one who thinks any sort of death penalty for Penn State isn't the right solution to this problem? It basically punishes everyone who had nothing to do with this.
Looking beyond the Penn State program itself, this would absolutely devastate the local economy, which i'm guessing depends tremendously on these football games (and the 100K+ people they bring in for every home game) since it's a town in the middle of absolutely no where. You hurt the Mom & Pop restaurants and stores, all the vendors, field crew, radio guys, etc that work the games out of jobs, and hurt a ton of student athletes who played no part in the situation.
Those who did take part in the scandal should be punished appropriately but a death penalty makes no sense. The school is already going to suffer from all the bad publicity and will probably have to pay out a ton of money due to lawsuits, and if you want to punish them more put a TV ban or something similar in place. Just don't destroy something that the town depends on so much.
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Though some will be impacted by the sanctions coming down tomorrow (who had no knowledge of anything going on within the walls of the institution) that doesnt have anything to do with the punishment to be bestowed. Simply put, this was an institutional wide cover-up that allowed a known child rapist to continue his heinous ways, therefore that very same institution will and must pay the penalties deemed fit for them by their own overseers.
Its going to be ugly around College Station for a long time me thinks.
Think about this....USC just lost 2 years worth of bowl games and some scholarship abilities for the Reggie Bush thing....and just as in this case, those involved were long gone when the punishment was enforced.
How mush worse is this particular "crime" than that of a player getting money from boosters with administration being aware?