Keith Olbermann Not Exactly Thrilled NCAA Giving Penn State Football Its Wins Back

[monmouth4]

Penn State and the NCAA have come to an agreement that will restore the 112 wins taken away from the school’s football program in 2012 over its mishandling of the Jerry Sandusky child-molestation scandal. And Keith Olbermann is pissed off about it.

The ESPN anchor, who is not exactly one to mince words, named the two parties the “world’s worst” during his show on Friday (it starts around 2:00 in the video above). The agreement will once again make the late Joe Paterno the winningest coach in major college football history. Paterno was accused in a 2012 report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh of covering up the scandal to avoid bad press, which allegedly allowed Sandusky to continue to abuse children.

In his segment, Olbermann took the NCAA and Penn State to task for continuing to worry about the legacy of its football program and coach.

“This is Joe Paterno’s legacy. This is Penn State’s legacy,” Keith Olberman said. “Football was more important to them than saving children."

There is a Keith video and not much more to the article but here's the HuffPo link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/17/keith-olbermann-penn-state_n_6493136.html

[LittleBlue]

1. Does it matter?

Those children were harmed. Whether the wins are officially counted or not, it doesn't change anything. Depriving the players of wins who had nothing to do with the molestation doesn't help the children, it doesn't erase what happened, and it definitely doesn't bring any logical justice. It doesn't change what happened on the field or off it.

Jerry Sandusky doesn't care whether those wins are counted.

[Aerows]

7. Consequences

That's what matters. If there are no consequences for the actions of an organization, there will be no reason to do anything differently.

[benz380]

9. Paterno was an enabler. That's all he should get credit for. nt

[pnwmom]

12. Yes. Because if the coaches and administrators know there could be very serious consequences --

to them personally -- they would be less likely to be involved in the kind of cover-up Penn State was involved in.

[Blue_Tires]

20. It's the fact that people involved turned a blind eye

or actively covered it up all to protect the reputation of a big-time football program, which is reprehensible...

[dembotoz]

2. nails it

[underpants]

3. I agree with him. I heard this and couldn't believe it

[Cha]

4. Nor am I.. thanks KO for speaking out. mahalo monmouth

[YvonneCa]

5. He always does..

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[Cha]

6. KICK for KO Always speaking out!

Yvonne~

[YvonneCa]

8. ...

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[monmouth4]

19. YW Cha...n/t

[Johonny]

10. So can Pete Carrol and Reggie Bush go back to saying they won the championship?

Because I'm pretty sure massive child abuse-rape on the scale Penn State covered up is a little more serious than the crap USC got caught doing. If rape isn't so bad we can give them the wins back... every college better get their wins back too.

[Iggo]

11. I'm not happy they have a football program to give the wins back to.

The wins happened. They should count.

My view is that the football program should have been dismantled when it was discovered that it was used to shield and enable a man who fucks children.

[pnwmom]

13. The reason the wins should not count is that the games occurred

because of the extended cover-up. The season might have been suspended if this had come to light earlier, as it should have. Why reward the team owners/managers for covering up the abuse so they could keep the focus on football?

[Iggo]

16. Why reward them by letting them keep the thing they were trying to save: the football program?

[Johonny]

17. and they can make $$ selling Joe Pa's image and the fact he has the record

If there was no money involved, I doubt they'd care. Taking away the "wins" officially was a way to make sure they could not capitalize on their past wrong doings with future profit. We can see how long it lasted. Frankly I can't see why any school would now accept these official record book dings if this one is removed.

[spanone]

14. thank you mr olbermann. 'football was more important than saving children'

[Paladin]

15. Olberman nails it, yet again.

The NCAA may have cratered on this shameful matter, but that doesn't make it right. There's got to be a hell of a back story (or stories) connected to this decision; somebody's going to write a book about it, a guaranteed best-seller.

[malaise]

18. Good for Keith

I agree with him