Penn State football was hit with a four-year postseason ban, the loss of 40 scholarships over four years and a $60 million fine as a result of the cover up in the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
In addition, all Penn State wins from 1998-2011 will be vacated. The fine is equal to one year’s gross revenue…
The penalties cripple Penn State football, putting it as close to the death penalty without the NCAA actually applying the rarely-used sanction. The program will be limited to 15 scholarships beginning for the next four years beginning in 2013. The normal limit is 25 per year.
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July 23rd, 2012 at 9:52AM
NCAA penalty to include renaming Penn State athletics: “The Omelas.”
July 23rd, 2012 at 6:48PM
these diehards who still revere paterno, who chanted we are penn state as the statue and the plaques came down, they are a pathetic lot. that town remains insular and shamefully unreconstructed.
i wonder whether the statue will re-emerge in a publicly viewable but more remote part of campus, as a sop to the cult.