I solicit opinions on the Penn State punishment.

First, Sandusky is the criminal.
Second, I have not read the paper by Louis Freih. Forgive me if I am ignorant of some facts and findings.

I believe Sandusky was punished too severe. Prison turns humans into slaves.

I don't have a figure in years to punish him but clearly he had to be punished.

Paterno is much less guilty. I am not clear just what he knew.

But the punishment against Penn State takes down the players, other staff and even faculty and students.

I think Penn St got punished for nothing.

I thought the punishment was appropriate. The institution of Penn State allowed Paterno to actively cover up Sandusky's comment which facillitated further child abuse. Penn State itself shares responsibility for the later acts of child abuse and the institution deserved to be punished.

"The world is a mess and I just need to rule it." --Dr. Horrible.

Is there proof the univesity approved molesting teens?

"Approved"? Not exactly. There is strong evidence presented in the Freeh Report an in the criminal trial that Paterno, the school President, and others at the University were aware of the child molesting and covered it up to prevent embarassment to the school. They did so and still allowed the molester access to the school's facilities with children allowing him to molester even more children.


"The world is a mess and I just need to rule it." --Dr. Horrible.

The NCAA promotes Big Time college sports and now it condemns the results a week after promoting more with a play off plan that makes it more money. Taking away Penn States wins is stupid. It punishes with something that had nothing to do with sex offenses. There have been many cases of places who rapped but it never resulted in games becoming pretend losses.

I have long been an outspoken opponent of Sex offenses but I understand that it taken a long time for most people to figure out the need to respond quickly to charges. Many of our churches have had the sae problem from Catholic to LDS.

So far the PSU's board od directors are the one group to go unpunished and only a dead Coach has been punished for being a big time FB Coach. Many have sinned in many ways yet only the dead get condemned by the NCAA. I notice they take no responsibility.

Should we remove the record of all POTUS who owned slaves? All the coaches who discriminated? All who broke recruiting rules? Punishing for mistakes of the past is a slippery slope. No one but Sandusky and possibly the President of Penn State is guilty of a crime.

I qualified my judgement by admitting I had not read the Freeh report. Normally I would urge a trial to decide the facts rather than simply use a report, but this was very serious. If the university fathers allowed this as Keith says, it makes more sense than before. I won't pass judgement on the penalty though a lot of innocent NOW have to suffer.

But I also recall when humans are convicted, it is normal for their own family to suffer. I wish a punishment can be devised that targets the guilty and does not ruin it for the family.

No doubt Mrs. Paterno will be the target of vile outrage.

The punishment of Paterno reminds me of the Catholic Church's trial of a dead Pope in the 9th century. So far only one Trustee has resigned in spite of the fact they are the responsible body for oversight of the University