The NCAA has handed out their punishment of Penn State University for the Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Post after post is appearing on my facebook newsfeed and Penn State is starting to trend on twitter.
Here are key points of the punishment with my comment for each.
1. A four-year postseason ban. - Really? A 4 year ban on bowls? That man sexually abused children, and the school knew and allowed it to continue for OVER a decade and they ban the school for 4 years? Personally it should have been one year for each of the years they allowed Sandusky to freely continue abusing children.
2. $60 million fine, which will be used to create a foundation for abused children. - This seems fair to me.
3. Penn State will be forced to cut 10 scholarships for this season and 20 scholarships for the following four years. - I personally HATE sports scholarships. Universities should be about academics, not sports. I only wished they would cut them all.
4. Penn State will be forced to vacate all wins from 1998 to 2011. - This just doesn't make any sense to me. The games were played, despite the horrendous activities occurring in the background. Why remove them?
I personally feel sorry for the students because they will probably feel the brunt of this with hikes to their tuition to make up for the revenue loss from Penn State losing all the TV money from not being in the bowls for the next four years.
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