cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Plus there's the whole issue of Penn St. not even having a compliance office for the athletic dept, and certainly nothing involving football went past Joe. That alone should have been enough to hammer them, and that seems to get forgotten rather quickly by a lot of people.
This makes the most sense. There's a kind of Leona Helmsley, "Compliance is for the little people," quality to it.
What I find curious is that an institution whose function is to regulate and monitor athletic programs was the first to use the indictment and trial of Sandusky and the Freeh Report to punish administrators and Joe Paterno. The Big Ten followed up the NCAA's actions by imposing a $13M fine. Shouldn't that have been the role of the American Association of Universities, the Big Ten's Consortium and the Middle States Association?
To my knowledge, only Middle States has acted, threatening to pull PSU's accreditation and placing them on probation. By having the NCAA taking the lead the case appears to turn on football and not on the failure of education professionals to follow through on their mandated obligations to report and investigate child abuse.
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