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Maybe, probably not. They are super light sentences for the crime, there are no long term ramifications, and the football program was largely unaffected.[/quote]
It is the first time I’ve ever seen actual jail time for administrators in this kind of situation, and while the behavior of Paterno and Sandusky was appalling, the manner with which Spanier was complicit in the football program’s handling of the complaints is bog standard among chief operating officers at Division I football schools. So, while the months he’ll spend in jail is just a fraction of what you or I would get for child endangerment, it is infinitely more than what has been the norm.
Because they’ve been convinced that it makes money for them, and both state and federal government in the US have been reducing funding for universities for years and want universities to be “self sufficient”. The thing is, it actually turns out that once the costs of athletic “scholarships”, athletic facilities, and multi-million dollar coach salaries are taken into account, most university athletic programs actually lose money!
They don’t lose money, they purposely mask all profits to limit scholarship opportunities for students and avoid paying taxes. That is an entirely different set of extremely sleazy and unethical practices, much like the production of a film that claims their tentpole movie was made at a loss.
All it takes for creative accounting to fail, is political will.
Vote out the yellowbellied cowards who can’t resist an extra buck, and vote in people who have a modicum of integrity with an agenda that says that corporations and the rich need to be paying at least as much (marginally) as the middle class.
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They don’t lose money, they purposely mask all profits to limit scholarship opportunities for students and avoid paying taxes.[/quote] @jhbadger is completely correct. Figuring out how money flows between the campus and the athletic departments is not entirely trivial, but changes in both campus budget models and NCAA reporting rules have made it easier in recent years, and this has been pretty extensively studied and reported over the last 10-12 years. What is remarkable is how people in positions of authority over university financing (regents, legislators) have somehow been shielded from this.
Works for me. Although the players probably aren’t responsible for the actions of the coaching team either. But maybe people who would have come to Penn State to play ball would go elsewhere instead?
The four year postseason ban effectively kills their football program. No good players will go to a school that literally can’t get into the postseason, and after the ban is up, no good players will want to go to a school that has a sucky team. But I think they should be prohibited from having a team. If they prioritize winning sports ball games over keeping children safe, they should be forced to reevaluate their priorities.
