Due to Penn States progress in ensuring athletics dept functions with integrity, NCAA immediately restores football postseason eligibility.— NCAA (@NCAA) September 8, 2014
Penn State will also have all scholarships restored for the 2015-16 season per the NCAA.— Ben Jones (@Ben_Jones88) September 8, 2014
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aww snap :)
USC fans are going to be pissed!
Look, say what you want about the original penalties and whether or not they were too severe, or even if they should have ever happened in the first place...
This is why the NCAA is such a joke. Even when they give out harsh penalties, they eventually whittle it down to nothing more than a slap on the wrist. If you're going to punish someone, stick with your guns and punish them. This is why you see schools like UNC and Miami openly flaunting their unwillingness to abide by the letter of the law, because they know even when they're caught, the NCAA is too spineless to ever make them pay for it.
The NCAA is corrupt. By randomly ending PSU's sanctions, they are establishing a precedent and basically encouraging more bribery and corruption.
I wouldn't necessarily call their timing "random". This came the first weekday after one of their "power 5" conferences had the worst Saturday of any major conference ever. If the B1G loses, the whole NCAA loses (money).
Having PennSt become bowl eligible just means that more publicity, more attention and more money can go to a more reputable school and towards keeping up NCAAF TV ratings.
Yeah, they're corrupt, but cant we agree the same can be said about the NBA, MLB, and NFL, too?
It also happened to be leaked on the same day everyone is talking about the NFL/Ray Rice.
Jay Paterno (I know, not exactly a nonbiased source) was on with Finebaum today. The NCAA quietly announced this morning that they would allow the state of PA to keep the $60 million in sanctions, apparently because a federal judge is close to throwing out the Freeh (sp?) report, which means the NCAA wouldn't have gotten the money anyway and they would have overturned the bowl ban and scholarship reductions. I'm not a lawyer and I probably didn't say that exactly right, but that was essentially what he was saying. I'd be expecting to hear more about Penn State from a legal aspect in the coming weeks.
Right, as soon as the judge started to question the legality of the consent decree, the NCAA backed waaaay off.
Let's not kid ourselves though, the penalties that PSU has faced have already done a decent amount of damage to the program. It hasn't hit rock-bottom like so many of us expected (and, surely, many people wanted), but the scholarship reductions, transferred players, coaching churn, and lack of postseason participation/Big Ten revenue have hit the program in the sensitive parts.
Lots of people I know up here think PSU should stick it to the Big Ten and join the ACC (the treatment PSU has received from the Big Ten has a lot of people really angry), but the grant of rights for television revenue would likely be a barrier too difficult to overcome.
That was the phrase I couldn't think of last night that Paterno was talking about on the radio
They must have wrote a huge paycheck to the NCAA. Its all about the money. If you can make money for the NCAA, whatever act you commit is quickly forgotten.
The Big 10 has been looking weak as hell.. now the NCAA tries to bail them out.
not with that weak schedule, I mean seriously the Big 10 is one of the weakest conferences, take Michigan State out and Ohio State and its just like the MAC. ROFL
[Insert something about glass houses and throwing stones here]
Don't they still have to win 4 more games?
5 games. One of the teams they beat is an FCS school.
1 FCS is allowed for bowl eligibility. However, if you play 2 FCS teams, you need 5 FBS wins in addition. Unless you lose both FCS games, then it's just 6 wins.
There we are. I was a wee hazy on the specific rule.
This team and staff has absolutely nothing to do with what happened. This was always going to happen and I'm glad it did.
As mentioned above, the NCAA enforcement is ridiculous. I don't feel sorry for USC because of this, as they skated for decades with no enforcement eyes on them while they flaunted the rules. I don't feel good for PennSt, because I firmly believe that their culture has NOT changed, that what matters more to them than anything else is winning football games. That was all that mattered for JoePa, and that is all that matters now.
As with the Ray Rice scenario, none of the recent 'fixing' changes the truth. It's no wonder some schools cheat so blatantly. They know they'll never be seriously punished. coughUNCcough...
Not to mention, how do the victims and fams feel about this?
I'm sure the Penn State fans will keep questioning their integrity and motivations.
Penn State's sanctions will last for less time than Bruce Pearl served for hosting a cookout for recruits at his house.
Okay, that reminds me. The Bruce Pearl reference. Bruce Pearl just recently came off his ban from ALL contact with recruits. Remember, he is at Auburn who has ZERO basketball tradition. At one minute past midnight, he signed a 5-star recruit. Later that morning, he signed another 5-star recruit. The next day, he signed a 4-star recruit. Excuse me, got commitments, not signed.
Gee... It sounds like Bruce certainly learned his lesson about shady recruiting. And isn't it wonderful that he has such outstanding assistant coaches that they managed to serve those recruits up to him on a silver platter. Then finally, what great trust those recruits have in Bruce Pearl that they decided to go to a school that has zero basketball tradition and play for a man they've supposedly never met, supposedly never talked to on the phone, supposedly never texted, supposedly never shared an email with, supposedly never even received a letter from the guy.
Yes, it's a lollipop world...
Hah. Perfect!
Beat me to the punch. Fuck Penn St.
I've heard about this from a few people already. I got emails at mah work, text messages on mah phone, people walking into mah office, and my boss's boss wanted to talk about it when I walked into mah meeting today.
I'm going to wait a while until I really post much about this, because there is surely going to be a storm of various topics and of varying proportions in the next day or two.
But it suffices to say that the people up here are pretty happy about this, but not happy about the following:
1) Big Ten penalties are still in effect, as far as the finances are concerned. PSU still can't share in bowl revenue but can surely generate bowl revenue for the conference. The biggest PSU homer I know has been discussing since the decision was made, and this was his first gripe.
2) People are still hoping that "the truth comes out" and that the beefs they have aren't ignored moving forward.
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Shouldn't sanctions like that be adjusted between seasons and not during?
#justNCAAthings