How many top recruits would have lined up to go to Pederasty U? Keeping knowledge away from the public kept them from suffering a major recruiting disadvantage.
There is no way of proving that. Because you are basically saying they would've done the right thing and stopped it years ago. That would drastically change the outlook on this situation. Yes psu would catch fire, but paternos legacy wouldn't be tainted. More or less in that scenario Sandusky would probably be the only bad guy and the school wouldn't be as much at fault.
No, Paterno was fired during the season on Nov. 9 2011. Tom Bradley was the coach when they played Houston. Paterno's last loss was to Coach Saban. As it turned both Paterno and Coach Bryant coached their final game against the same team, Illinois.
No, the University provides educational opportunity for the students and people of Pennsylvania. Sometimes "opportunity" comes in the form of Athletics. The people involved should be punished. Penn St. existed before Joe Pa and should after he is gone. You don't punish people that were not involved because of misguided actions or "non-actions" of people that were the cause. People slay me with there extremist viewpoints built on a "morality" of perception. That opportunity for others should be there despite what happened.
I respectfully disagree. One of the reasons that we see students victimized and no action taken by universities is because the schools themselves are never held accountable. If the employees for a large corporation were to behave like this, the entire company would face huge consequences. Many companies have been put out of business, so heavy were the fines and suit reparations. This even though the innocent employees of those companies would be put out on the street, jobless.
OK, fine them, indict them, whatever but the idea of vacating wins totally misses the target in this (and many) cases.
Good reply, but I think it's about punishing the people responsible and not the one's who had nothing to do with it.
Like I said earlier - I don't care about the wins. This is not a football issue. Let a dead Paterno keep his wins. Shut down PSU.
The people are sometimes not just people. In situations like this, they are the institution itself.
We will have to agree to disagree. They were misguided in their actions on behalf of the institution and should be punished. Not the local economy of Happy Valley or student athletes that had nothing to do with their actions. "Institutional Prejudice" is practiced everyday by people, yet I'm sure you will agree that "all" shouldn't be punished by the actions of a few.
Would you also keep criminals out of prison because their sentence punishes their families?
