Let us review one by one the sanctions that the NCAA imposed on Penn State without even conducting its own investigation:
Probation for five years – Fair Enough
$60 million sanction – How does depriving students of the benefits of those funds make any sense?
Four-year bowl ban – Is punishment for the wrong doings of administrators and state and local officials to be inflicted on innocent football players?
Vacates all wins from 1998 – 2011 – How silly can they get. They need Superman or a time machine to go back and change history.
The NCAA is charged with making certain that schools compete on a level playing field. The Sandusky scandal has nothing to do with fair competition. The NCAA took unprecedented action, and without any due process.
The editor’s take: A bunch of frightened and sanctimonious bureaucrats carried away by orchestrated hysteria and the media spotlight.
