{"id":184140,"date":"2012-07-23T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/23\/penn-state-gets-slap-on-the-wrist\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T01:51:00","slug":"penn-state-gets-slap-on-the-wrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/23\/penn-state-gets-slap-on-the-wrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Gets Slap on the Wrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/colleges\/ncaa-and-big-ten-sanctions-of-penn-state-announced-monday\/2012\/07\/23\/gJQA5Upb4W_story.html\">the term of the so called punishment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $60 million fine.  (For a program routinely generates revenue, <b>not counting alumni donations<\/b> in the $50 million dollar range).<\/li>\n<li>Vacating all victories since 1998, which means nothing except that Paterno is no longer the winningest coach in college football.<\/li>\n<li>A 4 year ban on bowl games.<\/li>\n<li>Loss of 20 scholarships for the next 4 years.<\/li>\n<li>Allowing players to transfer into other programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The biggest deal is the post season ban.&nbsp; It reduces revenue, and makes recruiting of top level players all but impossible, so everything else is pretty much nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this to SMU, which had the temerity to conspire with boosters to <b>pay<\/b> its so-called &#8220;student athletes&#8221;, and had its football program <b>shut down<\/b> for a year, and their football program has never recovered.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sportsnow\/la-sp-sn-dufresne-ncaa-penn-state20120723,0,6729566.story\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/sportsnow\/la-sp-sn-dufresne-ncaa-penn-state20120723,0,6729566.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s look at the term of the so called punishment: A $60 million fine. (For a program routinely generates revenue, not counting alumni donations in the $50 million dollar range). Vacating all victories since 1998, which means nothing except that Paterno is no longer the winningest coach in college football. A 4 year ban on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}