In an interview with The Chronicle this week, Ray [chairman of the NCAA’s Executive Committee and president of Oregon State University] said the NCAA should consider harsh penalties against the Nittany Lions? program.
?People have suggested that the culpable people have been fired, that Joe Paterno has died?so why do anything to the football program or the athletic program?? he said. ?I?d sure want some pretty damn clear evidence that the athletic program is not capable of doing this again.?
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?To the extent?and I?m not privy to the facts?here was this culture within the university, and a very closed community, where Joe Paterno and his people did their thing,? Ray said. ?That?s just not going to cut it going forward.?
Ray also doesn?t buy the idea that Penn State did not gain a competitive advantage in football during the years in which its leaders failed to act on accusations of abuse by Jerry Sandusky, the coach convicted last month on 45 counts of molesting children.
?Penn State did a hell of a lot of recruiting between 1998 and 2012 of very top football athletes, played in bowl games, had great records during some of those years,? he said. ?I don?t know if a lot of that would have been possible if the truth had come out over the last 14 years.?
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The first pedster who chained himself to that godforsaken thing would have truly completed me.
