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Originally Posted by Chiefnj2
The NCAA hands down punitive punishments all the time. Ask Dez Bryant. Dez didn't break any rule. He lied about not having a meeting that was Legal and he was suspended for an entire season.
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He violated NCAA rules when he lied to investigators.
What Penn State did violated criminal codes and created civil causes of action.
Once again - that's the distinction. The NCAA exists only to enforce its own rules. It wasn't operating in a punitive fashion with Bryant - it was operating in a regulatory fashion. What Bryant did would've simply slid on by but/for the NCAA because nothing he did was inherently illegal. The only way for the NCAA to regulate and deter that conduct was to suspend the player. It wasn't a punitive measure, it was deterrence.
The NCAA regulates things that would be legal but/for the fact that the NCAA says that they're against the rules; a distinction you've already acknowledged. It does
not seek to regulate things that are already illegal. it isn't a catch-all body that simply does what it wants with amateur athletics. It's parameters are pretty straightforward.
So many people scream and holler that the NCAA has too much power and now they're all trying to give it even more. People still haven't given me a decent answer as to what exactly shutting down PSU football accomplishes. There is absolutely no deterrent mechanism for other schools there that the criminal and civil sanctions won't already accomplish - let alone the public scorn.
Is anyone really going to argue that an Admin out there is going to let something go unreported now? And if so, that the death penalty for PSU football is going to be what changes his mind? C'mon - you all know better than that. The justice system and the court of public appeals provides a far greater deterrent than the NCAA. The NCAA
knows this and that's why it doesn't dick around in legal matters.
This isn't the NCAA's show - it's the legal systems.