PITTSBURG POST-GAZETTE: As calls to revise Penn State’s NCAA sanctions have grown this summer — including from members of the Board of Trustees and from coach Bill O’Brien, who said he would like the NCAA to meet Penn State “halfway,” — Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said this afternoon he had no plans to propose a compromise with the NCAA on behalf of Penn State…
Last year, Delany said that he didn’t care if the sanctions set a new precedent, that he thought the NCAA and the Big Ten had the moral authority to act.
He says he has not backed down from that stance, nor does the Big Ten have plans to revise its own sanctions, which involved withholding Penn State’s bowl payout for four years beginning with last season. The withheld total will be approximately $13-million, though Delany says it could be slightly more because of new bowl contracts and the forthcoming college football playoff..” … (more)
EDITOR: These penalties are a gigantic injustce, in large part due to the political opportunism of Gov. Tom Corbett in ‘slow walking’ the Jerery Sandusky prosecution while attorney general and then using revered coach Joe Paterno as a scape goat. Corbett’s poll standings suggest that the public is on to him.
