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- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:56:12 -0400 (EDT)
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NCAA Offers Losing Solution
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NCAA Offers Losing Solution
ESPN College Football
Tom Luginbill on Penn State defections
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8194508/
ncaa-loses-handle-turning-penn-state-losing-program
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/cgf6zeg
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There's only one honest way to look at the punishments slapped on Penn
State: The NCAA set out to create a losing program, and it went about the
task systematically, with all the subtlety of a watermelon being tossed
from the back of a moving pickup.
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Forget NCAA president Mark Emmert's talk of "reform." This wasn't reform;
this was after-the-fact, frontier-style revenge. Jerry Sandusky and Penn
State embarrassed and disgusted the hell out of the NCAA, the Big Ten and
just about everybody who ever uttered the phrase "success with honor"
within a 200-mile radius of Happy Valley. A whole bunch of someones had to
pay for this, and the NCAA decided it would start with the legacy of Joe
Paterno (already shredded) and knock down the rest of the dominoes from
there.
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It would have been neater and more humane to have imposed a one-year death
penalty on the Penn State program-- and that's exactly why the NCAA didn't
do it. The entities in the corner offices in Indianapolis wanted to make
Penn State suffer, and the best way to do that is to take a machete to
scholarships, declare amnesty for the current players, and then sit back
and cackle into the sleeve of their suit coats.
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It's like taping a bird's wings to its sides and then calling the cat over
to have a look.
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Emmert's main thesis, near as I could tell, centered on his remarks about
certain programs becoming "too big to fail." The only way this happens is
for programs to win, as Paterno's did at a remarkable rate. As a result,
people like Paterno become the kind of false gods who compel
otherwise-sane people to erect statues to living people. (Like the
Baseball Hall of Fame, there should be a five-year waiting period after
retirement when it comes to statues.)
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There's no doubt the NCAA needed to do something drastic, original and
meaningful. It needed to do something that indicated it understood who was
innocent, who was guilty and who was victimized. It needed to go outside
its normal routine and make a statement that was neither self-serving nor
vindictive, something that took into account the shame and conviction that
followed Sandusky. If framed properly, a one-year death penalty -- call it
an opportunity to regroup and recuperate -- could have worked. Instead,
the NCAA fell back on tradition: an utter lack of imagination, with a side
of vindictiveness, and a resolution vague enough to be no kind of
resolution at all.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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