Penn State may still get "death penalty" - Emmert

[bonarae]

PBS clip embedded on CBS Sports blog (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/19600940/video-ncaa-president-mark-emmert-will-not-rule-out-death-penalty-for-penn-state)


New information and evidence revealed in the Freeh Report show that Penn State administrators had multiple opportunities to put a stop to Jerry Sandusky's sexual abuse on and around campus.

Their inaction for more than a decade could result in NCAA action against the school, and President Mark Emmert is not willing to take any possible punishments off the table at this point.

In a recent PBS interview with Tavis Smiley, Emmert addressed the Penn State saying that he has "never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university and hope to never see it again."

Often, past precedent will be a factor taken into consideration when it comes to NCAA enforcement. Even in the early stages of determining if penalties will be enforced, Emmert says this may be a case where past precedent makes sense because the issue at Penn State is an "unprecedented problem."

[darell1976]

PBS clip embedded on CBS Sports blog (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/19600940/video-ncaa-president-mark-emmert-will-not-rule-out-death-penalty-for-penn-state)

That school is tainted for good...just like SMU will always be known as the Death Penalty school. I say give Penn State the death penalty. I have heard people say its not a football issue...BS!!!! If this was their golf team it would have been stopped...if it was their hockey team it would have been stopped. But since it was their #1 sport, their money maker, with their "GOD" of a coach....it was allowed to continue.

[ASUMountaineer]

That school is tainted for good...just like SMU will always be known as the Death Penalty school. I say give Penn State the death penalty. I have heard people say its not a football issue...BS!!!! If this was their golf team it would have been stopped...if it was their hockey team it would have been stopped. But since it was their #1 sport, their money maker, with their "GOD" of a coach....it was allowed to continue.

Yeah. For me, what happened at PSU with the football program and administration is the epitome of "lack of institutional control."

[ngineer]

No question it is the epitome of an institutional control issue. The problem going forward is if the NCAA gets involved on THAT issue, it has no excuse for not going after many others where various criminal events, not 'directly' associated with the football/basketball/whatever program, get whitewashed or resulting in minor wrist slaps that any other student would not receive but for being a member of a 'sacrosanct' program. Once the "camel gets its nose under the tent, you never get him out" is a very worn but appropriate adage.