Do you ever make a post that is not attacking another poster? Do you ever simply talk football or basketball on this board?
Only the ones who intentionally take people's posts and twist them to create straw men. I have no respect for them. (you).
Do you ever make a post that is not attacking another poster? Do you ever simply talk football or basketball on this board?
Football made the school. They get to live in embarrassment for who knows how long.
Check the fine print, they are talking about FBS coaches.
The B1G also seems to be making Penn State forfeit it's BCS share for 4 years, which is $13 million a year, $52 million total.
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=157&f=1395&t=9166856&p=2
Learn to read, the $60 MM was assessed by the NCAA, the $13 MM per year forfeiture of BCS revenue is imposed by the B1G on TOP of the 60. PSU's loss of its own bowl revenue for four years is then on TOP of that. $60 MM is NOT the extent of their financial penalties imposed here.
Penn State didn't make $13MM a year in BCS revenue. That would mean the Big 10 was making almost $150MM from the BCS alone. I am not sure what you are saying.
Penn State makes $30MM a year from the Big 10 TV contract alone, which is about $25MM more a year than UConn, which has not been covering up child rapists. If you consider the effective loss of that difference for 2 years a big penalty, you are certainly entitled to that opinion.
Your position is that Penn State will actually have $125MM fine. I find that unlikely. I think the media is playing up a slap on the wrist to look like a loss of a limb. If Penn State is excluded from bowl revenues for bowls that they don't go to, we can agree to disagree on the meaning of that. I don't think Penn State has a RIGHT to be a Top 10 program, especially since they allowed children to be raped. You disagree. If Penn State can't go to the bowl, some other Big 10 program that didn't allow child rape will go. Zero sum game.
The question of whether Penn State has to disgorge past bowl revenues is still open. We will learn soon enough.
If so, then why do Bowden's non-FBS wins put him over the top?
I believe the Penn State penalties are very severe.
That said I strongly disagree with those in the media who say this is worse then the death penalty. Nobody will be saying that the first saturday in September when there are 75,000 + people in the stands at PSU. These penalties can be mitigated to some extent if O'Brien turns out to be a genius coach who is able to rally the troops (keep them from leaving) and is able to keep the program respectable enough so that at the end of the 4 year bowl ban PSU is able to keep hit the ground running. To that extent it remains to be seen how severe these penalties are.
Only the ones who intentionally take people's posts and twist them to create straw men. I have no respect for them. (you).
Please quote a post of mine where I say I disagree that PSU should be allowed to go to bowls and be a top 10 program. You are continuing to invent realities and arguments made by others to create new strawman arguments and make personal attacks on other posters. You have serious issues and I'm ashamed to be associated with the same university as you.I don't think Penn State has a RIGHT to be a Top 10 program, especially since they allowed children to be raped. You disagree. If Penn State can't go to the bowl, some other Big 10 program that didn't allow child rape will go. Zero sum game.
There are not many schools like UC-SD out there. Hard to believe their endowment is larger than ours.That's not what bothers me. Embarrassment that is. It is that and more. But, they should have ended football. Not made the academic side pay. I had an inkling this is how the NCAA was going to play it.
I also don't think football made the school. Made the school more popular, yes. But you'll have to look around at the growth of state universities around the nation, especially those that don't have PSU's success at football. How are they doing? PSU is not so far ahead of many of these state schools.
I believe the win vacation was strictly a shot at Paterno and nothing else, unless they force PSU to return all bowl revenue from that period of time, which would easily enter up into the hundreds of millions.I'm still trying absorb the full scope of the punishment. Vacating wins seemed pointless to me. But given that Joe Pa was so legacy driven, I'm warming up to it.
Does it? If so, that wouldn't be right.
There are not many schools like UC-SD out there. Hard to believe their endowment is larger than ours.
Please quote a post of mine where I say I disagree that PSU should be allowed to go to bowls and be a top 10 program. You are continuing to invent realities and arguments made by others to create new strawman arguments and make personal attacks on other posters. You have serious issues and I'm ashamed to be associated with the same university as you.
nelson,
I think that Penn State gets no bowl revenues from the Big 10 for the 4 years they are banned from bowls.I don't think it is just BCS revenue. I don't know what the number is but it is pretty big on top of the $60 million. Again, this wasn't the death penalty, but it was substantial and it will hurt. It was significantly bigger punishment than USC. I would guess that best case, Penn State probably has a future looking very much like the current Notre Dame for a decade after the sanctions end...8-4 in a good year, with a trip to the Bob's Bait & Tackle Shop Bowl to play the B-12 #7. The thing is that Penn State is not USC or Ohio State or Michigan or Texas. Close, but not there...and the Big is simply better than the Pac12 making recovery even tougher.
It is a penalty, imposed by the B1G! Did you not read that article when it came out an hour or two ago? What is it if it's not a penalty then? You've invented the reality that I'm a PSU apologist and that I disagree with these penalties.I don't invent realities. You are listing the forfeiture of future bowl revenue as a penalty.
If they make PSU return bowl revenues going back to 1998, that's a huge penalty. Other than that, it's a shot at Paterno, and a way to knock him off as the all-time wins leader.Vacating wins going back to '98 ???? Yawn. Can't unring the bell. JoePA has taken a huge hit and his legacy is forever ruined, but his teams still won those games. Bobby Bonds still had 73 of his hits wind up over the fences. Ditto for Mark M and Sammy. Can't change that. Just need to correct moving forward.
It is a penalty, imposed by the B1G! Did you not read that article when it came out an hour or two ago? What is it if it's not a penalty then? You've invented the reality that I'm a PSU apologist and that I disagree with these penalties.
As far as recruiting, I think Penn State will be fine, especially for the top kids. There is a lot less competition for playing time now, and it is still Penn State and the guys across the line are still Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, etc. I also think the perception of a "harsh penalty" will reduce the Sandusky stigma that would have otherwise been associated with the program. It gives the perception that Penn State will have paid its debt to society. I am sure that was deliberate by both the school and NCAA to enable Penn State to come out of this on their feet.
Even with the reduced scholarship number, Penn State will be a very attractive destination for top recruits in the Northeast.