Editorial “Name Game at Penn State” opines:
“What’s the justification for stitching the names of players on the backs of jerseys, other than to satisfy the individual player’s desire to be more easily noticed?
“So much for the team, eh?
“Penn State officials, understandably, are anxious to get the Sandusky horror behind them. But in their haste, they trampled on a worthy football tradition that embodied what collegiate sports should be all about — the team, not the individual.”
WATCHDOG: The New Era is commendable for focusing on this minor aspect of the Penn State ‘witch trial’. But when will the editors find the courage to speak out about the NCAA excesses as have their letter contributors?
For example, Jerri E. Stumpf today in “CAA penalties against PSU are overkill”:
“ …1. Why didn’t the NCAA follow its own rules for investigating activities for which they may impose penalties? It may take longer but, for obvious reasons, including allowing “due process” for all involved in order to ensure “the ultimate penalty they impose fits the crime.” It also allows their decisions to be appealed. A fundamental right in America!
“2. How can the penalty imposed by the NCAA be fair/legal considering: The threat of a four-year “death penalty” was offered to the acting president in return for Penn State accepting the lesser penalties imposed without the right of appeal. Sounds like extortion to me. One person, not the full board, being able to give away Penn State’s right of appeal of the penalties (due process)?
“Just as a jury decided Jerry Sandusky’s fate, juries will decide the fate of others involved. I feel a court should decide if the penalties imposed by the NCAA, in this case against existing and future Penn State football players who had nothing to do with the scandal, are equitable and legal or “overkill” and excessive (illegal)…”
Thanks for your support of my position!
My hope is that some attorney who is an alum of Penn State will take on this lawsuit “pro bono” and get the “ball rolling” before it’s too late! Jeri
I truly understand how much everyone wants to get the ball rolling. May I comment without anyone getting upset but….Please, those young men will live with this for the rest of their lives. It’s more then just the law suits….
First, I am not upset. However, the jury found Sadusky guilty; he will die in jail. Justice…..maybe not…but the judicial system, not academic politics, decided his fate…and he will get the most severe punishment he can under the laws of the Commonwealth.That’s good! Curly and Shultz ; any others involved ….will also be dealt with via the criminal justice system and citizen juries.
Victims will eventually get monetary damages too. Does that make up for what Sandusky did to them and they have to live with the rest of their lives? No! But, what more can be done to punish the guilty in this case? I don’t know, but, I’m for, whatever that is!
All I’m saying is, what about those not guilty, that the President of the NCAA has punsihed? Existing and future Penn State football players!
Just as the criminal justice system has heard the facts and meeted out what is “justice” as we know it for Sandusky; and will do so, for the others involved, in the future; let the criminal justice system, not academicians and academician politics, decide what is the proper punishment for those who were innocent (existing and future football players) and, if the NCAA went too far…..modify it accordingly!