Monday, July 16, 2012
Should Penn State get the death penalty?
This is way more then just football. Recent investigations have come out to prove that Joe Paterno and other high up Penn State officials knew what Jerry Sandusky was doing when it came to the little kids. The big controversy going around is debating whether or not Penn State should receive the death penalty for the NCAA Division-1 football team. The death penalty by NCAA definition is a ban from all founding and activity involved with football. The fact that Joe Paterno and others knew what was happening in still allowed him to have an office on campus and allowed him to come out to practice where kids where still around in insanity. Its past football, the power that Joe Paterno had at Penn State to allow him to get away with what had been going on should have never been amounted to anyone. with the first incident reported was in 1998. It has been 14 years since because Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials created a cover up for Sandusky. The fact that the Penn State football team is such a historical team there will not be a penalty enforced because not only would that be devastating for the school but also for the NCAA. Also what people aren't taking into account is all the kids that would be affected that are in the program now. Where would they go? Why should they be penalized. The death penalty would be penalizing football at Penn State but instead of that, they need to be focused on penalizing the people who were involved in the tragic events.
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i agree the people that was involve in covering this incident up should be penalize. The players had nothing to do with this and therefore should not have to transfer out of the program.
ReplyDeleteI understand that the people at Penn St. now had nothing to do with anything that happened over a decade ago but we have seen things like this in recent years and teams have been penalized. Think about USC and the Reggie Bush Scandal. Reggie Bush accepted illegal benefits while playing there from 2003-2005. The school was still penalized 5 years after he was gone and these penalties affected the kids that had nothing to do with the scandal. I think if the NCAA would do that to USC then Penn St would be subject to similar penalties especially since what went down at Penn St was much worse.
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