It is absolutely delusional to say the current coach James Franklin is being punished. If so I want some of that punishment. He left Vandy, a school which could play in a bowl, and 3 mil on the table, for a pay raise and knowingly went to a school under sanctions. How is he being punished? He knowingly accepted the job under sanctions. Talk about a punishment, he got a 1.5 million dollar raise! Talking about millionaire coaches being punished for not being allowed to play in a bowl game is delusional. There should be no sympathy for any major D1 college coach who can leave at the drop of a hat like Franklin did to Vandy for millions more.
So it's the NCAA's job to help protect some Pub in Happen Valley 8 Saturdays out of the year? Why should the NCAA take the local economy into affect when delivering punishment? If that is the case the NCAA should increase the scholarships and give benefits to teams with low attendance to help their local economy. The local economy argument is weak and does not make any sense. That is something the NCAA should not even consider. The NCAA is not in the business of promoting local economies.
So if it comes out that a bunch of D1 football players were all living in a football dorm running dope and pimping out girls in that dorm the football program should not be affected? It is a criminal matter not NCAA matter right? The NCAA should stay out of all criminal matters? The school or team has no responsibility at all for what happens on its campus?
No, it is not the job of the NCAA to determine which local college town's economies get support and which ones do not. That is not the job of the NCAA. The NCAA is not the World Bank or IMF. That is why the local economy argument PSU truthers make is weak.
So what if a few bars/restaurants have to close in Happy Valley because some fair weather fans, who most likely never even attended PSU, do not go to the games because the team is not as good. That should never factor into the NCAA's decision.
So, you are a member of the NCAA and are sitting in Texas deciding whether SMU should get the death penalty or not. On your list of pros and cons with your fellow NCAA members, you don't consider what levying the death penalty on a program will do to the players, coaches, fans and community? You don't at least think about it? Of course you do.
You mean JoePa, the head football coach and highest paid public employee in the State of PA, had nothing to do with this? You know Sandusky had an office near JoePas, emeritus status and unfettered access to PSU football facilities right up until he was charged right? You know McQueary was promoted by JoePa right?
So McQueary tells JoePa in 2001 he saw his former DC fondling a boy in the football building in 2001. Now fast forward to 2010, JoePa is still the coach, McQueary has been promoted by JoePa and Sandusky is still walking around using the PSU football facilities. You don't think JoePa, at a bare minimum, could have told Sandusky or his superiors I never want to see that asshole in or around our football facilities again? No, it was poor old JoePa, the guy never had any real power to do anything right?
