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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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If those local businesses make it or break it based on 6 home games a year...