JoePa Fired/What is happening at Penn State?!?!

**whirlybirds** · 11-01-2012, 09:53 PM

Looks like Graham Spanier might be joining Sandusky.

Indictment of ex-Penn State president reveals disturbing details of how PSU dealt with Sandusky - Yahoo! Sports

**Cyched** · 11-01-2012, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by whirlybirds

Looks like Graham Spanier might be joining Sandusky.

Indictment of ex-Penn State president reveals disturbing details of how PSU dealt with Sandusky - Yahoo! Sports

Schultz can rot in there too. A secret Sandusky file? Just when you think it's over...

**TykeClone** · 01-02-2013, 08:02 AM

Pa. Gov. Corbett to file lawsuit against NCAA over Penn State sanctions | CharlotteObserver.com

The commonwealth will sue the NCAA over the sanctions imposed on Penn State resulting from the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Gov. Tom Corbett will announce Wednesday that he is filing a federal lawsuit against the NCAA for its sanctions against Penn State, according to a news release from the Governor’s Office.
Corbett will hold an 11 a.m. news conference Wednesday in the Alumni Fireside Lounge of the Nittany Lion Inn.
The state is acting without the university in preparing the lawsuit. Penn State spokesman David La Torre told the CDT that the university is not aware of the lawsuit.
University trustee Anthony Lubrano also said he didn’t have much information on the lawsuit.
“If true, I’m glad that the governor has finally come to agree with my point of view that the NCAA had no authority to intervene in this matter,” he said Tuesday. “I do wonder why it took him so long to come to that point of view.”
The NCAA levied severe penalties on the university, including a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl ban, a drop in the number of football scholarships the university can offer and the vacating of the football team’s wins from 1998 to 2011. It’s not been determined whether all the sanctions or portions of them are targeted in the suit.
Penn State in July accepted the sanctions and in December paid $12 million in penalties into an escrow account. University President Rodney Erickson accepted the sanctions claiming the alternative would be the “ death penalty,” so called because it would have completely closed down the football program for four years.
Erickson had said he was told of the NCAA’s plans to levy a four-year football shutdown because of the role university leaders allegedly played in the hiding of accusations against Sandusky in 1998 and 2001.

**keepngoal** · 01-02-2013, 08:30 AM

Let them play in the FCS... they are lucky they are allowed to suit up.

**CLONECONES** · 01-02-2013, 08:32 AM

I find it very hard to believe Penn State had "nothing to do with this"

**State43** · 01-02-2013, 08:43 AM

Further proof that Football is more important than anything else. Shame.

**CycoCyclone** · 01-02-2013, 08:45 AM

Wasn't one of the conditions of not being levied a "death penalty" was that Penn State didn't fight it?

And I'm sorry, a state school = state government, so this would count in my book.

**Mr Janny** · 01-02-2013, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by CycoCyclone

Wasn't one of the conditions of not being levied a "death penalty" was that Penn State didn't fight it?

And I'm sorry, a state school = state government, so this would count in my book.

your book would be wrong, then, because that's not how it works. Penn State does not speak for the state attorney general or the governor. It's a state funded institution, but the university has no control over whether or not the state government chooses to take action.

**Judoka** · 01-02-2013, 08:51 AM

Corbett was the Attorney General in Pennsylvania before being governor. His actions as AG allowed Sandusky to continue molesting boys while everybody (including Corbett) looked the other way. This might be as much about covering his own *** as anything else.

**State43** · 01-02-2013, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Janny

your book would be wrong, then, because that's not how it works. Penn State does not speak for the state attorney general or the governor. It's a state funded institution, but the university has no control over whether or not the state government chooses to take action.

But, being a state funded institution, wouldn't they be liable for their "state" lawsuit on their behalf?

**Mr Janny** · 01-02-2013, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by State43

But, being a state funded institution, wouldn't they be liable for their "state" lawsuit on their behalf?

That's another issue entirely, though.

When it comes to conditions of the NCAA punishment, Penn State can't promise that the governor/attorney general of Pennsylvania will not fight them. The power doesn't work that way.

**State43** · 01-02-2013, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Janny

That's another issue entirely, though.

When it comes to conditions of the NCAA punishment, Penn State can't promise that the governor/attorney general of Pennsylvania will not fight them. The power doesn't work that way.

But the loophole does

**Mr Janny** · 01-02-2013, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by State43

But the loophole does

what loophole?

**TykeClone** · 01-02-2013, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by Mr Janny

That's another issue entirely, though.

When it comes to conditions of the NCAA punishment, Penn State can't promise that the governor/attorney general of Pennsylvania will not fight them. The power doesn't work that way.

From the article

University trustee Anthony Lubrano also said he didn’t have much information on the lawsuit.

“If true, I’m glad that the governor has finally come to agree with my point of view that the NCAA had no authority to intervene in this matter,” he said Tuesday. “I do wonder why it took him so long to come to that point of view.”

The trustees are complicit in this and, should the NCAA decide to see it that way, have gone back on their part of the agreement not to fight the sanctions. The NCAA would be well within their rights to give the PSU football team the death penalty as soon as the lawsuit is filed.