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Originally Posted by JayP
But what beyond vacating the wins has any affect on the people involved? So now as I football coach or AD, I know if I cover something up here are the repercussions if it breaks out:
- get fired
- go to jail (depending on the incident)
- have wins vacated
- school gets fined (who cares - I'm already fired)
- school loses scholarships (who cares - I'm already fired)
- school receives bowl ban (who cares - I'm already fired)
You could argue that Paterno is the special case where he would care what happens to the school after he's dismissed and in prison, but in the modern world of leap-frogging coaches the harsher parts of the penalties the NCAA handed out are irrelevant to the people involved. As from vacating wins (which absolutely no one takes seriously), the punishment falls on their replacements.
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That's just such a narrow view to take on this "who cares, I'm already fired" because it ignores the value of a person's reputation with their peers & the community.
Sure, maybe you don't really care if you get fired, but would you feel the same if your actions (or inaction) caused your closest friends & family to get fired as well?
Think about your close circle of friends, the one's you'd hop in a car at 2:30am for after a single phone call. The one's you'd open your home to at the drop of a hat. Now imagine you betrayed all of their trust at once & caused irreparable damage to their reputation as well as their pubic/private life?
This isn't about punishing the guilty, it's about setting an example & sending the message that "no, our sport is not too big to fail, and there is limits to what you can do to succeed on the field".