Updates About Penn State Scandal UPDATED 6/12: PSU has spent $45.9M on scandal

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$60 million fine, 5 years probation, 4 year postseason ban, loss of 20 scholarships per year, adpotion of Freeh report reccomendations.

They just got the thermonuclear penalty and the B1G will likely pile on.
 

1. $60m sanction
2. 40 scholarship reduction (10 per year for 4 years)
3. 4-year bowl ban
4. Any current or incoming student can transfer without penalty
5. Athletic department is on probation for 5 years
6. Wins from 1998-2011 vacated

Yeah, they nuked.
 

WOW:

Penn State penalties: fine of 60 million; no postseason 4 yrs; 10 scholarships cut per year for four years; vacated win since 98; 5 yrs probation

Go Gophers!!
 


How can they recruit with a four year bowl ban?!?! Bill O'Brien must be livid.

Go Gophers!!
 


BleedGopher said:
How can they recruit with a four year bowl ban?!?! Bill O'Brien must be livid.

Go Gophers!!
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They can only have 65 scholarship players a year, equivalent to an FCS program. Good thing Bill O'Brien has pro experience with a smaller roster...

The university has signed the consent decree of the penalties.
 







station19 said:
From Jay Bilas,ESPN....July 13

http://espn.go.com/college-football...caa-better-sanction-penn-state-administrators


"Its pattern over the years has been to punish prospectively. The NCAA rarely lays the blame at the feet of the actual wrongdoers. Rather, the NCAA seems fond of punishing those who remain behind, saddling them with sanctions that limit the ability of the blameless to move forward.

I have never felt this is fair or particularly effective. To sanction Penn State with a bowl ban, a television ban, loss of scholarships, loss of practice time or other penalties would do little or nothing to punish the monstrous behavior of Sandusky or the cowardly cover-up and indefensible inaction of Spanier, Schultz, Curley and Paterno."


"The NCAA, instead, should sanction the actual wrongdoers in this case: Spanier, Schultz, Curley and Paterno. The sanctions should not be forward-looking but based upon the actual wrongs committed by each. Unfortunately, the NCAA rarely, if ever, takes such action with regard to administrators. Usually, such action is reserved for coaches and players. The NCAA never, and I mean never, takes action against one of its own, a university president. The university president is the one who is supposed to be in charge, and the one the NCAA repeatedly tells us is in charge. Yet the president is never held accountable."
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I get where this line of reasoning is coming from but can't say I agree with it. The situation with Penn State happened because of a culture that places the importance of football above all else. You can be sure that Penn State is not alone in this. A message needed to be sent that its not worth it to bury your head in the sand for football glory. Look at the reaction of the majority of the Penn State people to this scandal. A good portion of them are still in denial that their beloved JoePa did anything wrong. Hopefully this penalty will serve as a wake up call for people who value winning games to the detriment of everything else.
 



CrocShots said:
They can only have 65 scholarship players a year, equivalent to an FCS program. Good thing Bill O'Brien has pro experience with a smaller roster...

The university has signed the consent decree of the penalties.[/QUOTE

There are 22 starting positions. Would You rather face a USC/Alabama with 65 or most other schools with 85? USC stayed very competitive, preseason #1 this year but thin. The bowl ban hurts recruiting.
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Despite the fact that these NCAA penalties are idiotic, unfounded, and arbitrary, I have made my $50 donation to GopherHole as promised to settle my previous wager with Stan.
 

Ron Johnson Super Fan said:
I get where this line of reasoning is coming from but can't say I agree with it. The situation with Penn State happened because of a culture that places the importance of football above all else. You can be sure that Penn State is not alone in this. A message needed to be sent that its not worth it to bury your head in the sand for football glory. Look at the reaction of the majority of the Penn State people to this scandal. A good portion of them are still in denial that their beloved JoePa did anything wrong. Hopefully this penalty will serve as a wake up call for people who value winning games to the detriment of everything else.
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+19
 

dpodoll68 said:
Despite the fact that these NCAA penalties are idiotic, unfounded, and arbitrary, I have made my $50 donation to GopherHole as promised to settle my previous wager with Stan.
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As usual, you did it with class!
 


dpodoll68 said:
Despite the fact that these NCAA penalties are idiotic, unfounded, and arbitrary, I have made my $50 donation to GopherHole as promised to settle my previous wager with Stan.
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Thank you
 

dpodoll68 said:
Despite the fact that these NCAA penalties are idiotic, unfounded, and arbitrary, I have made my $50 donation to GopherHole as promised to settle my previous wager with Stan.
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dpodoll68, thank you for your donation. We appreciate it and have added you to our donor list.
 

dpodoll68 said:
Despite the fact that these NCAA penalties are idiotic, unfounded, and arbitrary, I have made my $50 donation to GopherHole as promised to settle my previous wager with Stan.
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Classy guy. Who was more idiotic, the NCCA or you for betting they would not impose sanctions on PSU?
 


Replacement Gopher said:
Still believe recruiting will falter only because the product on the field is bad?
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That statement was made before crippling sanctions were in place. Obviously that's not what I think now. Hopefully the concept of changing an opinion based on changes in situation isn't hard to comprehend.
 


GoAUpher said:
That statement was made before crippling sanctions were in place. Obviously that's not what I think now. Hopefully the concept of changing an opinion based on changes in situation isn't hard to comprehend.
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It's called foresight. Have some.
 

Replacement Gopher said:
It's called foresight. Have some.
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It could also be called making assumptions. There is nothing wrong with that if you qualify your opinion to note that you're basing it on what you think will happen, but it's not the only correct way to think. There is nothing wrong with forming opinions based on facts as they come out. Unless you think my opinions have some real world power and that someone or something was harmed by me waiting until the NCAA actually ruled.
 

dpodoll68 said:
Despite the fact that these NCAA penalties are idiotic, unfounded, and arbitrary, I have made my $50 donation to GopherHole as promised to settle my previous wager with Stan.
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You can feel better that PSU likely initated and proposed this penalty. They needed closure as well.
 

GoAUpher said:
It could also be called making assumptions. There is nothing wrong with that if you qualify your opinion to note that you're basing it on what you think will happen, but it's not the only correct way to think. There is nothing wrong with forming opinions based on facts as they come out. Unless you think my opinions have some real world power and that someone or something was harmed by me waiting until the NCAA actually ruled.
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Has anyone ever said you are long-winded?
 



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