Penn State University - The Freeh Report

[ISUser]

From Penn State could pay $100 million in civil damages to Sandusky's victims and lose public funding - Yahoo! Sports:

'And then there's the possibility of NCAA violations, specifically articles 2.4 and 10.1 of the NCAA constitution, which insist on proper ethical behavior on the part of coaches and school officials: "These values should be manifest not only in athletics participation, but also in the broad spectrum of activities affecting the athletics program."

The NCAA sent a letter to Penn State asking for answers to four key questions related to the Sandusky scandal, and sports law expert Alan Milstein thinks it's a foregone conclusion the NCAA will get involved. "If Penn State is smart," he said, "they're going to self-punish and eliminate the program for one year to avoid the death penalty."

Others believe that because this is a criminal issue and not a sports concern, the NCAA will avoid interfering. Milstein vehemently disagrees. "This is all about sports," he said. "All about protecting your sports empire."

He predicts Penn State will "shut down" its football program temporarily and allow athletes to transfer without penalty. If that happens, the school obviously would suffer a serious financial hit.'

 

[Mr Janny]

From Penn State could pay $100 million in civil damages to Sandusky's victims and lose public funding - Yahoo! Sports:

'And then there's the possibility of NCAA violations, specifically articles 2.4 and 10.1 of the NCAA constitution, which insist on proper ethical behavior on the part of coaches and school officials: "These values should be manifest not only in athletics participation, but also in the broad spectrum of activities affecting the athletics program."

The NCAA sent a letter to Penn State asking for answers to four key questions related to the Sandusky scandal, and sports law expert Alan Milstein thinks it's a foregone conclusion the NCAA will get involved. "If Penn State is smart," he said, "they're going to self-punish and eliminate the program for one year to avoid the death penalty."

Others believe that because this is a criminal issue and not a sports concern, the NCAA will avoid interfering. Milstein vehemently disagrees. "This is all about sports," he said. "All about protecting your sports empire."

He predicts Penn State will "shut down" its football program temporarily and allow athletes to transfer without penalty. If that happens, the school obviously would suffer a serious financial hit.'

Just to put in perspective the type of money we're talking about here.

Football Revenue for Penn State comes in at about $70 million per year.

As stated earlier, donations since JoePa was fired total about $212 million. So, yeah losing a year of football would hurt, but it's not going to kill that program. Their alums have shown us that they will see to that.

 

[ChiefCy]

CNN had Bobby Bowden onTV a few minutes ago. I thought they were going to ask him about that statue, but did not.

 

[shagcarpetjesus]

The Gricar disappearance is fascinating, but I think most of the funny business was just orchestrated by Gricar so he get away to a new life more easily.

Could somebody with "Penn State's best interests" in mind have thrown a crapload of money at Gricar to disappear conveniently?

 

[VeloClone]

Could somebody with "Penn State's best interests" in mind have thrown a crapload of money at Gricar to disappear conveniently?

In that scenario, I would imagine it would be more like "take the crapload of money and disappear or take the cement shoes".

 

[CYlent Bob]

If someone was willing to pay Ray Gricar to disappear while Jerry Sandusky was still a free man associating with the Penn State program (and, more importantly, still victimizing little boys), they were willing to take Ray Gricar out in the woods and put a bullet in his head.

When you sit down and think about what that hypothetical person would have been protecting, there's no moral difference between the two actions....and killing the man would insure that he doesn't come back looking for another payout.

 

[CTTB78]

Turns out Barry Switzer was right. The day the story broke, Switzer said all of the Penn St. coaches knew what what was going on, including Paterno. Of course, Barry was never liked by Paterno and endured a few negative Paterno comments for years. But he was right, Paterno and a lot of people at Penn St. knew and looked the other way.

 

[VeloClone]

Turns out Barry Switzer was right. The day the story broke, Switzer said all of the Penn St. coaches knew what what was going on, including Paterno. Of course, Barry was never liked by Paterno and endured a few negative Paterno comments for years. But he was right, Paterno and a lot of people at Penn St. knew and looked the other way.

Switzer made a lot of enemies in his day.

 

[CYlent Bob]

Switzer made a lot of enemies in his day.

And Sandusky raped a lot of kids in his day. Paterno enabled a lot of rapes in his day.

Give me that cheatin' SOB any day of the week. Crap, this scandal even manages to make Lawrence Phillips dragging his ex-girlfriend down the stairs by her hair look more reasonable in comparison. And THAT is pretty hard to do.

 

[CYlent Bob]

Just to put in perspective the type of money we're talking about here.

Football Revenue for Penn State comes in at about $70 million per year.

As stated earlier, donations since JoePa was fired total about $212 million. So, yeah losing a year of football would hurt, but it's not going to kill that program. Their alums have shown us that they will see to that.

$212 million? Wow, imagine how much they would donate if Sandusky had killed those kids after raping them. $300 million? $400 million? They really missed out on a bountiful revenue stream here.

 

[CLONECONES]

$212 million? Wow, imagine how much they would donate if Sandusky had killed those kids after raping them. $300 million? $400 million? They really missed out on a bountiful revenue stream here.

lol +1

 

[letsCYber]

NCAA cares about one thing: $$$$$$$$$ because of this, Penn State football will survive.

 

[letsCYber]

They shouldn't tear down JoePa's statue. They should just rotate it to symbolize his legacy of looking the other way...

 

[Cychotiic]

I'm interested to see what develops with the gricar situation.

 

[CLONECONES]

Report -- Joe Paterno had negotiated exit package - ESPN

even more joepa doesn't give a ****

In the midst of the Jerry Sandusky child-sex abuse investigation, former Penn State coach Joe Paterno was planning his exit strategy, according to a report by the New York Times.

The newspaper reported that in January 2011, the same month he testified before the grand jury regarding Sandusky, Paterno began negotiations on a package that gave him $3 million if he retired from coaching after the 2011 season.

The amended contract, reached in August, months before charges were filed against Sandusky, also included perks such as use of a plane and hydrotherapy equipment for his wife that totalled $5.5 million.

Paterno's contract was not set to expire until the end of 2012, according to university documents.

According to the newspaper, the university's full board of trustees were kept in the dark about Paterno's arrangment until November, when Sandusky was fired.

 

[isulive2train]

 

[Doc]

I'm interested to see what develops with the gricar situation.

I think, if anything, this all supports the idea that Gricar faked his death on his own while trying to protect as much of his reputation he had left.

If people think he was murdered they have to explain a lot of things, including why did Gricar want to wreck his own hard drive.

 

[CycloneErik]

Report -- Joe Paterno had negotiated exit package - ESPN

even more joepa doesn't give a ****

I wonder is his only real regret is that he didn't ask for more. They would apparently give him everything he ever wanted.

 

[CLONECONES]

Jerry Sandusky scandal -- NCAA president Mark Emmert signals heavy sanctions for Penn State - ESPN

NCAA president Mark Emmert has not ruled out drastically punishing Penn State football in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

I've never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university and hope never to see it again," Emmert said during the interview. "What the appropriate penalties are, if there are determinations of violations, we'll have to decide.

"Well it was more than a football scandal, much more than a football scandal. It was that but much more. And we'll have to figure out exactly what the right penalties are. I don't know that past precedent makes particularly good sense in this case, because it's really an unprecedented problem."

looking like it might be very harsh

 

[jbhtexas]

looking like it might be very harsh

On the other hand, new Big 12 commish Bowlsby in a Friday interview on ESPN 103.3 (linked in another thread) said that he hasn't seen evidence of signficant NCAA violations, and doesn't think the NCAA or Big Ten have justification for harsh penalties.

I hope Bowlsby is wrong.