In an article regarding these sanctions, Michael Rosenberg, a writer for Sports Illustrated magazine says that due to the fact that Emmert took 20 scholarships per year away from Penn State's football program, "65 Penn State players will likely get their butts kicked on Saturdays as punishment for crimes that they didn't commit." Of course sanctions needed to be made, but why should students be punished for something that wasn't their fault? Also, if the message that the NCAA is trying to send is that winning is unimportant in comparison to something like child abuse, then why is it even necessary for them to strip Penn State of their wins? Aside from consequences affecting the football program, the fine that the school has to pay ($60 million), is not allowed to be used towards Penn State's educational programs. If the whole school is already being punished for the crime, wouldn't it at least make sense for the NCAA to allow the school to have money to teach students about sexual abuse?
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Do the Punishments Fit Their Crime?
Yesterday, as many Americans may know, college football started. Personally, I am not a huge football fanatic, but did however watch some of Penn State's game. The result was not in their favor and to be honest, I felt sorry for the players. Because of the sickening actions involving child abuse and the inability of important people at their school to say anything about it, the students and entire Penn State football community are having to pay the consequences. Don't get me wrong, the actions of Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, and the others involved are inexcusable and deserve to be severely punished, but it is a shame that the whole school is being pulled down with them. The following video shows Mark Emmert, the NCAA president, talking about the sanctions that will be placed on Penn State (begin video at 2:00):
In an article regarding these sanctions, Michael Rosenberg, a writer for Sports Illustrated magazine says that due to the fact that Emmert took 20 scholarships per year away from Penn State's football program, "65 Penn State players will likely get their butts kicked on Saturdays as punishment for crimes that they didn't commit." Of course sanctions needed to be made, but why should students be punished for something that wasn't their fault? Also, if the message that the NCAA is trying to send is that winning is unimportant in comparison to something like child abuse, then why is it even necessary for them to strip Penn State of their wins? Aside from consequences affecting the football program, the fine that the school has to pay ($60 million), is not allowed to be used towards Penn State's educational programs. If the whole school is already being punished for the crime, wouldn't it at least make sense for the NCAA to allow the school to have money to teach students about sexual abuse?
In an article regarding these sanctions, Michael Rosenberg, a writer for Sports Illustrated magazine says that due to the fact that Emmert took 20 scholarships per year away from Penn State's football program, "65 Penn State players will likely get their butts kicked on Saturdays as punishment for crimes that they didn't commit." Of course sanctions needed to be made, but why should students be punished for something that wasn't their fault? Also, if the message that the NCAA is trying to send is that winning is unimportant in comparison to something like child abuse, then why is it even necessary for them to strip Penn State of their wins? Aside from consequences affecting the football program, the fine that the school has to pay ($60 million), is not allowed to be used towards Penn State's educational programs. If the whole school is already being punished for the crime, wouldn't it at least make sense for the NCAA to allow the school to have money to teach students about sexual abuse?
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I agree with what you are saying and I think even Penn State as a university should not be fined, it should be the coaches that were involved and anyone who knew about the crimes commited, but didn't speak up. Its like if a coach at new trier abused a student, we wouldn't want to be fined as a school because new trier township residences's taxes would be raised for something that they had no involvement in. And now Penn state will have a negative connotation to the name for probably years down the road all because of actions of a coach.
ReplyDeleteThe Penn State consequences were very harsh, and some, including this blog post, say they are too harsh for the university. However, I believe that although they are harsh and many people who were not involved are being punished, it is the only way that the message will be heard and people will stop doing these horrific crimes. The sanctions and punishment are a very unfortunate for the Penn State football players as well as Penn State University as a whole. It is a shame that Penn State is being brought down with Jerry Sandusky and those who covered up the horrendous crime. However, these punishments are the only way that the severity of Jerry Sandusky's crime and the actions of who covered up the abuse will be heard.
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