SPORTS ILLUSTRATED / AP: NCAA President Mark Emmert said the sanctions levied on Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal dealt with the behavior of university leaders and whether or not the school handled the allegations appropriately.
Emmert told The Associated Press in an interview yesterday in Chicago that the “fact that there was criminal activity is not the NCAA’s issue.”…
Emmert said if a university addresses criminal activity “rapidly, then that’s not an NCAA matter. It’s whether or not the university fails to respond, to treat a student or an employee in a way that’s fundamentally different than they might treat someone else in the same circumstance. That’s what constitutes a loss of institutional control.”… (more)
EDITOR: If Sandusky was a retired professor of physics, they would have acted the same? Did the universities that founded the NCAA want to create a supervisory body over all of its activities or just one that made sure that competition was fair? The article gets even more bizarre when Emmert explains to the players that the games forefeited were really won.
But a culture of awe and reverence surrounding the highly lucrative football program created the conditions that made university officials want to cover it up.