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D'Oh!

 

Some trustees are fired up and ain't gonna take it.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20120826_Penn_St__trustees_split_on_sanctions.html?cmpid=124488459

 

Stand up! Punch back!

 

I want my $70,000 back if that's the case.

Actually, I'd like my $70,000 back in any case.

 

dude, you so outed yourself. you're that ohio u guy that's against child abuse.

 

If I ran the NCAA, I would send the PSU Board of Trustees a letter:

1) You have until noon Monday to officially vote on whether you accept the sanctions.

2) If you vote not to accept the sanctions, or if more than 25 percent of your membership so votes, we will interpret that as a substantial institutional expression of intentions not to abide by NCAA rules and regulations, as perfect a definition of lack of institutional control as could be imagined.

3) In such case, PSU is immediately expelled from the NCAA. Not on probation, not on suspension, not on temporary inactive status. Expelled.

4) In such case, readmission of PSU to the NCAA (at any level of competition) will not be considered until after the date of Jan. 1, 2023.

5) In either case, any PSU Trustee not affirmatively voting to accept the sanctions shall be interpreted as publicly stating his intention not to comply by NCAA rules and thus shall be ordered utterly disassociated from the PSU athletic program for life -- prohibited from any involvement with any athletic event, even down to the purchase of tickets. PSU will be expected to enforce such prohibition to the limits of its ability.

Choose and vote. Awaiting your response.

 

Seeing as how the board of trustees is only partially self-populating (i.e., trustees picking trustees), I have a hard time saying that some subset of trustees' votes would reflect the institution's willingness to comply with the NCAA's rules and regulations. Especially since said rules and regulations are only marginally at issue in this controversy.

Cue the "YOU'RE DEFENDING CHILD RAPE!" shreeks ...

 

On the other hand, I'd have absolutely no issue with the NCAA telling the trustees after the fact that, "Hey, we don't think we wanna hang out with you anymore."

 

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/27/penn-st-riot-ends-aspiring-army-officer-dream/
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Stints in jail. Hefty fines and restitution. Clouded futures. The consequences of their bad behavior have been steep for the Penn State students who took to the streets and rioted in the chaotic aftermath of Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno's firing last November.

Perhaps none have learned a harder lesson than Justin Strine, a young man from central Pennsylvania whose planned career as an Army officer is over before it began — the casualty of his own split-second decision to put his hands on a news van, and a judicial system that considered him as guilty as classmates who did far worse that dark night in State College.

As the fall semester gets under way Monday, Strine has returned to campus, along with 15 other students found to have taken part in a nationally televised riot that caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage and embarrassed Penn State.

As he resumes his studies, nothing's the same for the 21-year-old from Hummelstown. He spent part of his summer in jail. Far worse: He's been kicked out of ROTC, his dream of carrying on his family's proud military tradition now out of reach.

 

Yeah that tale about how as long as everyone else is doing it too you can't get in trouble... not true.

 

He can't enlist?

 

Good news is Blackwater has offered him six figures.