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KharmaTrain

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15. Seems To Be A Lost Focus About "Victims"...

Reply to kurtzapril4 (Reply #13)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 02:12 PM

Jul 2012

First and foremost the true victims are those young boys who not only were abused by Sandusky but whose victimization was increased by the silence of Paterno and others who put wins and loses over common sense and the law.

Seems in schools with big name athletic programs that the academic side gets short shrift to the wins and losses...and how many student-athletes are used and tossed away when they can't "perform". I saw it in my collegiate days...football players getting all sorts of favors and free-passes by teachers cause they could catch or run with a ball. Few got meaningful degrees if they got a degree at all...

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NCAA To Announce "Unprecedented Sanctions" Against Penn State [View all] alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 OP

Penn State doesn't deserve the death penalty. The current players had nothing shadowrider Jul 2012 #1

Impossible to hold university and football program accountable without hurting current players, yellowcanine Jul 2012 #3

I didn't say it wouldn't hurt the players, but they should be allowed to play n/t shadowrider Jul 2012 #4

They will be allowed to transfer with no penalty. Ikonoklast Jul 2012 #14

Hold the U and football program accountable for what? .... Scuba Jul 2012 #6

Hell with that. They covered up the crimes to protect the program. (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #17

Good players can transfer to another school. IMO this is a false argument. ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #5

Ok, the good players transfer. That's still leaves bad players on the team shadowrider Jul 2012 #7

Are Those Students There Only For Football? KharmaTrain Jul 2012 #12

I agree with you, Kharma. kurtzapril4 Jul 2012 #13

Seems To Be A Lost Focus About "Victims"... KharmaTrain Jul 2012 #15

Life isn't always fair. Ask the boys who were raped. ecstatic Jul 2012 #18

'Way too many people value FB over children. Shut it down!' ProgressiveEconomist Jul 2012 #19

Kind of like this whole gun debate, why punish those who did not do anything because others did? (nt The Straight Story Jul 2012 #10

Of course "unprecedented" for the NCAA is not necessarily saying all that much. yellowcanine Jul 2012 #2

The NCAA isn't supposed to have institutional control over universities n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2012 #16

punish the innocent 99.999% for the crimes of the guilty 0.oo1% guilty - it's a lynch mob nt msongs Jul 2012 #8

Probably strip them of scholorships... trumad Jul 2012 #9

There will be no death penalty, according to ESPN: boxman15 Jul 2012 #11