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Old 07-23-2012, 12:25 AM   #380
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Originally Posted by wpgflamesfan View Post
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.
are the current USC players on the roster deserving of the scholarship ban since they weren't there? It's a joke that people use that excuse because most often when the school gets hit they all say that when that's part of the game. If you don't punish the school at all since those players were not there and dont deserve it the cheating will be even worse. Miami has skirted the death penalty a few times but hopefully the NCAA grows a pair and hits them too.
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