NCAA Drops PSU's Post Season Ban

[OkaForPrez]

ESPN CollegeFootball ‏@ESPNCFB 2m
Breaking News: NCAA drops Penn State's postseason ban. More coverage on #CFBLIVE on ESPN2 right now pic.twitter.com/bQYUdHPXmv

LOL @ the NCAA using the Ray Rice story as a cover. These guys are professional scumbags.

 

[CL82]

The NCAA is a dying organization, IMHO. They can't/won't police the big boys so they are left with worry about whether the bagel has cream cheese on it and, of course, harassing UConn. It's time for a new model.

 

[UConn990411]

Just so we're clear, Penn State's postseason suspension lasted one year longer than the UConn men's hoops team. Meanwhile, Geno's getting hit with secondary violations for congratulating a Little Leaguer.

Sounds about right.

 

[BlueMAB]

UConn is punished by retroactively changing the rules, and Penn State gets reduced punishment for covering up decades of child molestation.

This can't be life.

 

[Dooley]

Unbelievable. So raping kids and covering it up for decades deserves only 1 extra year penalty as a bunch of low academic scores? I know our mistake was not asking all of our basketball players from the 80s and 90s to enroll in some bogus basket weaving course and apply it to the 2006 APR, but c'mon now. This on the heels of UCONN slapped with a minor penalty for a friggin' 1 minute phone call to a 12 year old KID.

I hate the NCAA so much. Fake classes, raping kids, and applying 1990s students to the APR is okay. A phone call to an excited kid to congratulate her on her unbelievable accomplishments is not okay. F Emmert. F the NCAA.

UCONN Autonomy.

 

[BlueDogs]

Just follow the money and all questions are answered.

 

[whaler11]

There is no point penalizing the kids at Penn State now for a dead guy and a guy in jail.

 

[UConnDan97]

There is no point penalizing the kids at Penn State now for a dead guy and a guy in jail.

I would accept this if our kids weren't penalized for someone else's test scores and someone else's decision to transfer...

NCAA = Scumbags

 

[amory]

if it were announced at the time that their penalty would be a 2 year postseason ban and loss of scholarships, emmert would have been hung from a tree by the general public.

lol, whatever. it's all just a big joke.

 

[BugsyCT]

Yeah, why punish people who had nothing to do with the wrongdoing? It's not the NCAA's way. *cough cough*

NCAA is pure, unfiltered scum.

 

[whaler11]

I would accept this if our kids weren't penalized for someone else's test scores and someone else's decision to transfer...

NCAA = Scumbags

Perfectly fine to be mad about the UConn nonsense but this seems fair.

 

[noeynox]

I'm with uconndan97 on this one. They played us, denied all of our appeals, despite significant evidence that the current kids had much higher APR scores. Somewhere UNC leaders are smiling.

 

[BugsyCT]

Perfectly fine to be mad about the UConn nonsense but this seems fair.

In and of itself - maybe.

When there's a double standard - no.

 

[Dooley]

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 57s
Even bigger than bowl ban being lifted is Penn State can have full allotment of 85 scholarship players next year; currently have 72

 

[Scoe]

Great timing NCAA lift the post season ban the second Ray Rice is suspended.

 

[UConnDan97]

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN 57s
Even bigger than bowl ban being lifted is Penn State can have full allotment of 85 scholarship players next year; currently have 72

Of course they can...

 

[Dogged]

There is no point penalizing the kids at Penn State now for a dead guy and a guy in jail.

This is horsehockey. PSU looked the other way for a long time and then tried to muddy the waters of transparency.

The NCAA is a useless piece of horsehockey.

A pox on both their houses!

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Anyone else wish William William would clean house with these NCAA duck*ers

 

[uconnlife]

This just in.... the remainder of PSU penalties and sanctions will be served by UCONN's Football, Basketball, and Baseball teams as well as Geno being suspended for the upcoming season.

-Mark and the NCAA

 

[UConnSean]

Great timing NCAA lift the post season ban the second Ray Rice is suspended.

The sliest of sly moves...unbelievable.

 

[noeynox]

Who the hell is William William?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Just add this to the list of golden opportunities lost due to the inept AD who ran the show from 2003 to 2011.

If there ever was a window where we could have made a bit of a name for ourselves it was post Fiesta Bowl with the giant who normally towered over everything in the northeast on reduced scholarships and a postseason ban. Instead of driving ahead with a bright, young, energetic head coach attempting to take the programto new heights we had P driving the program into obscurity.

 

[whaler11]

In and of itself - maybe.

When there's a double standard - no.

Consider the timing as well - it's just more evidence they are coming apart at the seams.

 

[UCFBfan]

This is just such a crock of *expletive*. UconnDan nailed it with his comment on the APR ban. The NCAA is so worthless why does it exist?

Oh I know. To crap over UConn if they look at someone the wrong way.

I just can't believe this anymore

 

[MilliniumPrince]

I believe this was the plan all along. This explains why Predator State didn't fight the sanctions nor did the Governor. The Filth...I mean NCAA had to look tough so they laid down tough penalties with a wink and a nod.

 

[whaler11]

This is horsehockey. PSU looked the other way for a long time and then tried to muddy the waters of transparency.

The NCAA is a useless piece of horsehockey.

A pox on both their houses!

Anyone who committed a crime should have been arrested and prosecuted. The NCAA should never had anything to do with it.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Anyone who committed a crime should have been arrested and prosecuted. The NCAA should never had anything to do with it.

Of course criminal penalties are warranted for anyone who had anything to do with the cover-up of child rape (coaching staff, AD's, office staff, boosters, school administration, politicians, police, fire, the person who takes out the garbage - everyone). But, in addition to those criminal penalties, the NCAA should have had to balls to also hurt the very thing those people were trying to protect: the football team. The NCAA has rules regarding institutional control for this very reason, but for selfish reasons has chosen to no longer enforce them.

The NCAA doesn't get off just because our criminal justice system is a mess - they both look bad here.

 

[whaler11]

Of course criminal penalties are warranted for anyone who had anything to do with the cover-up of child rape (coaching staff, AD's, office staff, boosters, school administration, politicians, police, fire, the person who takes out the garbage - everyone). But, in addition to those criminal penalties, the NCAA should have had to balls to also hurt the very thing those people were trying to protect: the football team. The NCAA has rules regarding institutional control for this very reason, but for selfish reasons has chosen to no longer enforce them.

The NCAA doesn't get off just because our criminal justice system is a mess - they both look bad here.

Well if the justice system did their job - I have no idea if they did or not then the appropriate people would be punished. I'm not sure how keeping kids who never met the perps out of a bowl game makes any sense.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Well if the justice system did their job - I have no idea if they did or not then the appropriate people would be punished. I'm not sure how keeping kids who never met the perps out of a bowl game makes any sense.

This is a completely false argument. First of all, any PSU player on the team at the time had the opportunity to transfer to another school without penalty. And second of all, anyone who is there now knew when they committed that there was a five-year suspension hanging over the program. The punishment was leveled on the program, not the athletes.

 

[CL82]

I'm with uconndan97 on this one. They played us, denied all of our appeals, despite significant evidence that the current kids had much higher APR scores. Somewhere UNC leaders are smiling.

...and by significant evidence you mean their actual grades. Don't get me started on this...