(03-06-2017 05:55 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(03-05-2017 05:26 PM)gosports1 Wrote:  the university covered up the crimes

The university did nothing. It's just a collection of buildings.

If individuals took it upon themselves to cover up a crime, then that's just another crime. For crimes, you call in law enforcement. You don't call the NCAA.

(03-05-2017 05:26 PM)gosports1 Wrote:  NCAA can certainly punish a university for covering up a crime

Again, a university doesn't cover up a crime. An individual or multiple individuals take it upon themselves to commit crimes.

The NCAA does have rules requiring institutional control. The intention of such rules to prevent the athletic dept from preventing the university from auditing or otherwise holding the dept accountable in terms of making sure the players are eligible. Things like that.

It was never intended for crimes, or covering up crimes (which is just another crime), because the NCAA is not a branch of government law enforcement.


The NCAA tried to get involved with PSU, tried to say that PSU lacked institutional control. That was appealed and defeated, thus proving the NCAA doesn't have authority for crimes.

(03-05-2017 05:40 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  actually would have had to clean their house and not engage in the sort of incestuous, tone-deaf practices that are endemic there to this day

You make a claim that the entire area surrounding Penn St is an incestuous breeding ground ...

(03-05-2017 05:40 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  People discussing athletic sanctions, which are long past, are perceived as making statements tantamount to wanting "the entire Penn St U system to burn the ground."

... and then complain about hyperbole???



So fine, your hatred is two-fold: 1) you hate/hated Joe Paterno with white-hot passion, and 2) you hate the people in Central Penn, and automatically equate all Penn State alumni as incestuous morons.



Getting back to what you said ... how have they not cleaned house??

Are you saying that Franklin is under the strings of some "Illuminati of Joe" puppetmaster??

stop the games. The people that covered up the rapes were acting on behalf of the university. They represented the university. The university needs to be held accountable for the acts committed in the name of the university by those employed by the university, If you believe a university is just buildings do you also believe a corporation is also just buildings? So if there is an oil spill or chemical gas leak the corporation shouldn't be held responsible, its just a building. The manager on duty the day of the accident is to blame, If a kid gets poisoned by some bad cereal that's not general mills or kellogs fault they are just a company! Even if the CEO knew the food could kill , that isn't the company's fault, they cant be held liable for that, right?