http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Paterno

Good to see someone was on the ball and already vacated his wins

It's not.
Having football >>>>> not having it.

There are numerous teams who go 4 years without bowl games and tens of thousands still show up and enjoy it.

another hour, another 4 star decommit

alright alright alright im probably being a little too mean

Per the guy who was on the Solid Verbal last week, PSU football makes about 50m a year on average. (no idea how that's figured or if it includes donations)

They also have a roughly 2 billion dollar endowment, although some of that is apparently specifically earmarked for future projects, so it's less than that.

Either way- the 60M is not insignificant, but also not the worst part of this for PSU by far.

It might actually be the one thing that does something to deter other schools though. Sure, PSU can fade it, but it would crush a school like WSU.

You do realize they'd have football again in a year or two right?

@roddywhiteTV
Do y'all think the NCAA will really give all that money to charities

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My opinion is the NCAA acting like the nfl commissioner vacating wins was stupid. I knew they would take money cause they money hungry.

Great post. It's amazing how many people (through their emotional blinders) completely miss the point of punishment in these cases - to make future decision makers think twice about covering something up and thus enabling a horrible predator to continue victimizing people. If it punishes kids who weren't involved - that's unfortunate but necessary.

About time you got here lol

Man Roddy White just can't stop bringing the stupid. Dude needs to be done with twitter.

silly crossover rivalry games... should have just put Michigan and tOSU in the same division and not have any crossovers. Switching Ohio State and Nebraska would've worked. Perhaps Iowa for Illinois as well if the one side needs some more strength.

Alright, I see where Michigan fans could be upset about competitive balance due to crossovers. Neb gets PSU every year. MSU gets Indiana every year. Michigan gets tOSU.... oh wow... that's not well done. All because some of the powers wanted to preserve the chance of Michigan and tOSU playing in the title game on occasion.

You're not thinking long term enough.

PSU wont just be going 4 years without bowl games.

Multiple years of 3 wins at best. Years where they'll be lucky to win conference games at all. That's going to keep the program crushed for years. I don't think anybody can pretend how they'll be able to pull of it it once they're back to full scholarship levels, maybe their resources mean they can- but after 5 years of being a national punching bag, it likely won't be easy.

And keep in mind, the best thing PSU had going for it was its image as PSU. That's way gone now. Without all the tradition and Paterno and what not- can they ever get back to close to the OSU/Mich level?

yep

roddy is the ****ing gift that keeps on giving.

There is no stipulation that the death penalty had to be the only punishment.


This punishment is worse than a 1 year death penalty with no subsequent sanctions, but of course not worse than the death penalty with subsequent bowl ban/scholarship limits.

confirmed

it will be easy

they still have their booster network in place
they are still in a jackpot of natural talent
they still are THE event in the central PA in the area

they'll be ahead of Indiana, Purdue, and Illinois in their division right away... couple of mediocre bowl years result as they modify their non-conf to be weak as possible and the momentum is ready to go

This isn't like SMU. SMU self added another year and disassociated all boosters. This isn't like Illinois in the late 60s were the conference forced a large portion of boosters away. This isn't the U as it's a 60k student state school in a sports happy area.

Yeah, pretty much this. I put together a pretty lol compilation of my friends facebook statuses, if I had more free time I'd troll them all myself but oh well.

Uh, they haven't been that good. If the structural advantages were as good as you were implying they wouldn't be like the 4th best team in the big ten over the past 15 years.

@robdelaney: Paterno supporters: All is not lost; they didn’t take away his Heroism in the Greed-Motivated Harboring of a Serial Child Rapist Award.

I also think that if the thought process here is that PSU football became too powerful and overtook the leadership of the university and they need to get some perspective- having them just be terrible for a number of years is a better way to de-emphasize the importance of the program.

Otherwise you kill it, and then they get to be reborn all phoenix style to a giant amount of fanfare and attention and football's just as big as always.

This way, by the time they're off probation, hopefully their diminished significance has some lasting impact.

im pretty sick irl (literally LITERALLY the worst time i could ever possibly be sick in the last several years), but i did crawl out of bed to see what happened here.

@_SaidByNoOne_: I think I'll apply to Penn State

And none of these may be true (or true to the same extent) by the time it's all over.

And as Riverman points out- it's not like they're crushing it right now with those advantages.

couldn't be they held onto an old man coach who wasn't willing to play the recruiting game the modern way, could it? Or, open up the offense at all?

I mean, in the whole mess, what was their new HC's recruiting class ranked this past February? Coming off a poor year, with a boring offense, and a pederast scandal... they pwned. Yeah, I'm pretty confident I'm not overselling the structural advantages.