(05-08-2017 09:17 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote: The institution - from a low-level graduate assistant, to the head football coach, to the athletic director, to the President, to the Board - all knowingly and willingly attempted to downplay and coverup the significance of what happened in order to protect its football brand and image. If that didn't/doesn't require the intervention of a national body - like the NCAA - then I'm not sure what would.
Yes, but...it's on the NCAA and others to define why they needed to do anything. The NCAA's response looked knee-jerk. It didn't have to be. It shouldn't have been.
I'm disappointed by a lot of things the more this rolls on. My alma mater mostly, but the common sense and vigilance of others demanding accountability and objectivity in discovery not too far off. Freeh is just a report. The NCAA, Big Ten, SoPA, and DoE should ALL have conducted their own investigations and reporting on this, and not just let it on PSU's report, no matter what weight the author's name carried at that time (which didn't hold up, if folks noticed).
This whole thing is loaded with fail. Nothing touching it is well done.
I can understand so many alumni from the school wanting to wash their hands of the place completely. Count me as one of them. I don't donate, don't want calls, won't join the Alumni Association; I certainly don't vote for Board members. But look at me b*tch about it, you know? I'm not helping anything in this...but, I could.
It's the same quandry we have with people complaining about the school for getting off from this big thing. Folks, that's not on PSU. The punishment CAME. It couldn't be sustained not because PSU had great lawyers and fought this off. It fell off because those who were charged with enforcing the rules and others who felt compelled to enforce (NCAA) did a piss-poor job of doing so.
It's easy to hate on PSU. Stop sympathizing or scapegoating the NCAA, state, and DoE, though, too.