Should Penn State Get the Death Penalty?

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

What was priority #1 at this university? Time to recalibrate. If that means neutering the program for a significant number of years--very minimum of five--great. But casting out the golden cow should definitively be on the table.

Time for that institution to wake the **** up.

If priority #1 is on education, then you're not going to cripple the program that is bringing in a huge chunk of the dollars that help you provide that educational experience. The football program makes $50-70M in PROFIT a year, which gets pumped into funding the entire athletic program. Joe Pa helped influence an additional $100M-150M yearly to get pumped back into the University. Expecting Penn State to maintain even close to the same academic experience without football is simply unrealistic. Athletic departments are a key driver of applications, enrollment, and hugely influential in raising money.

Send a clear message that the NCAA takes this seriously. Punish through fines that will eventually total in the hundreds of millions. Severely punish those responsible. Then move on and demand that Penn State over-comply and force them to earn trust back. That is a much more realistic solution and keeps you from punishing those who had nothing to do with this mess. The Death Penalty isn't going to solve anything more than you could solve in a much less severe, but well structured punishment that can be enacted without nearly the same consequences that cripple the ability the original mission, which is to provide a quality education to those who can't necessarily afford a private school.