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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Tazzy stop trying to tie my comments into me not having compassion for the victims...it is beneath you. When faced with answers to your questions you can’t rebut you take off on tangents.

We...or I… am strictly talking about the NCAA’s reaction to Penn States football program. I doubt you will ever see McQueary on the field again with Penn State.

As for as the football program is concerned these crimes will be put behind them and they will be remembered as a crime not as a fault of the football program.

Butch

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"school had nothing to do with this is obviously a coping mechanism for you. I’m glad its working.. too bad it didn’t work for the victims"

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"school had nothing to do with this is obviously a coping mechanism for you. I’m glad its working.. too bad it didn’t work for the victims"

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The belief that the school had nothing to do with it. It didn't stop with just the coaching staff... janitors knew it as well and never reported. What parent would ever feel safe sending their children there? Do you seriously believe it wasn't whispered about? Too many knew... and no one did a thing... which is what parents will remember.

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In addition to severe reputational damage, Pennsylvania State University faces the prospect of huge financial exposure from lawsuits by sexual-abuse victims who can credibly charge the university had ample warning that its former assistant football coach preyed on children but did little or nothing to stop it, say trial lawyers who have been following the case.

Particularly troubling for the university, at least from a legal liability standpoint, is that the broad parameters of a civil case already are being vividly laid out by state Attorney General Linda Kelly.

She has charged athletic director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, university vice president for finance and business, with failure to report the abuses and lying to a grand jury.

They were charged in connection with the attorney general's investigation of longtime assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was arraigned on 40 counts related to sexual abuse that occurred over 15 years.

The grand jury presentment recounts in considerable detail what authorities say were multiple reports of sexual misconduct or, at the very least, questionable behavior provided to Curley and Schultz. And on at least one occasion, alarming information was made known to legendary football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier.

Yet, Kelly charged, the university failed to take steps to stop Sandusky.

"I think they are liable. They may not be liable if this activity occurred outside the confines of the university premises, but from what I understand, he [Sandusky] was given wide access to a lot of facilities," said Sol Weiss, a partner in the prominent Center City plaintiffs firm Anapol Schwartz.

"It is a big exposure," Weiss said.

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Tazz,Idont think the program faces any sanctions....the NCAA will sit back and watch the criminal proceedings.While they do so a broom will be taken to the Penn St program and administrators
After all of that there will be no one left at the school,in a position of authority,still tainted by this scandal.....hence no need to sanction the program .
That's just the way I see it happening.

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But to sit back and insist that they definitely wont, despite the Presidents statement, is just doing exactly what people are complaining about... placing football as "god" above all else.