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    mighty maron
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    Money..Murder..Molestation..Does Penn State football deserve NCAA's Death Penalty?

    The "death penalty" as it refers to NCAA athletics is the ultimate penalty that can be handed down on a college program. The sanctions bar a program from competing in the near future and sets up such limitations that the program will not be competitive for quite a while longer.

    SMU football was the poster child for this program. Having already been placed on probation, SMU still choose to skirt the rules. Original recruiting violations were trumped by players being paid. A slush fund was created by a booster to pay players. To compound matters, school officials lied to the NCAA when asked about it. The NCAA had to impose its harshest action; the death penalty. The program had all football games cancelled for one year, no home games for another, and scholarship limits. Since then the entire SWC folded, and SMU football has not been the same.

    Murder comes into play in reference to the Baylor scandal. Patrick Denneheys murder is the forefront of the next scandal. After a teammate was convicted of the crime, a probe was lauched with numerous violations coming to light. Condoned drug use and improper payments to players and coaches were exposed. Baylor decided to take the initiative with self imposed sanctions. In the end the NCAA added to the sanctions but stopped short of cancelling seasons only because of the actions Baylor took at the end of trying to clean house.

    Which brings us to the current molestation(s) at Penn State. It is clear that people say this going on. People reported this to higher ups. It appeared that university officials choose not to go to the police. Terms like lack of instutional control and cover up are being bantered about. Sanctions will be imposed but how much?

    The main factor in this decision is that the victims were young children. In all other cases where the death penalty was considered; all parties involved were adults. These people made informed decisions. In regards to Penn State; young children were involved. There is no grey in this...children are victims. Previous death penalty considered cases all parties had eyes wide opened...with children no consent was possible. This tips the scales of justice towards death penalty.

    In recent years the death penalty has been implemented on programs that were not on probation. (Morehouse and MacMurray colleges) Since past precedence in the implementation of the death penalty is seen, Penn State should be given the death penalty. I hope the NCAA makes a statment that television contracts and money do not outweigh children. Cover-up made it worse.

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    The NCAA is powerless to do anything to Penn State. Period. End of discussion.

    Next subject, please.

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