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Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan
What exactly will this punishment prove to anyone though? A majority of the people it will affect had nothing to do with any of it. If you lost your job because some higher up diddled some little kids, would you be all fine and dandy because we have to protect the children?
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There have been plenty of businesses that have failed because of gross misconduct of executives. There is no reason at all why Penn State football is so special that it deserves different treatment. We're talking about easily the single greatest scandal in NCAA history. The NCAA has to hand down a punishment in line with that reality. The fault for collateral damage lies with the people who orchestrated the coverup. And regardless of what Joe Paterno and others accomplished, their legacies will be the enabling of child rape and the utter destruction of Penn State football. One can only hope this outcome will prevent similar coverups by officials at other institutions.