Yesterday the Penn State football players had a meeting with Coach Bill O’Brien to discuss the NCAA punishment. The Morning Call ran a picture of one of the players walking away from the meeting. I would like to know how keeping that player from participating in a bowl game is in any way justified. I would like to know how taking away 112 victories from Penn State teams from 1998 to 2011 is in any way justified.
As far as I know, none of those players were implicated in the Freeh report. None of those players were involved in covering up child abuse. Coach O’Brien was not implicated. The thousands of students at the main campus and at the branch campuses were not implicated.
The NCAA decision punishes the innocent and fails to punish the guilty. The NCAA president said, “These events should serve as a call to every single school and athletics department to take an honest look at its campus environment and eradicate the ‘sports are king’ mind-set that can so dramatically cloud the judgment of educators.”
I don’t even know what that means.
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