Should NCAA Chief Shut Down Penn State Football Program?

Yes it should be shut down and they should open Joe Pertino's grave and everyone should urinate on him for covering up that bunch of crap.

They should get rid of the entire staff and rehire new staff.

There were charges against some people and others hurts despite their being investigated and not charged. Their are other Universities more powerful or influential. Go after everyone, if justice is your quest, use Penn State as an escape-goat if you want to feel better. Iowa

that would hit the school where it hurts the most,, in the pocket book..

that would get their attention..

2 years in the hole.. damn,

They should shut down the entire school

This is going way overboard. In addition to the revenue lost by the school, in essence, Sandusky now hurts the school and the young men that where to play football for Penn state, as well as those poor young men that he has already hurt.

Piece of advice: Offer a "not sure" answer choice next time.

I'm torn on this one. As a former student-athlete myself, though, I'd have hated to see my sports program get the "death penalty" for something that happened there 10 years before I ever went to the school.

If Penn State does get the "death penalty," though, I won't be in strong disagreement with it. PROVIDED that the NCAA lets the current football players transfer to other schools and WAIVES the waiting period until they're eligible to play.

They have already allowed transfer and waived the waiting period.

I don't think they should shut it down. The student / players didn't have anything to do with this. The should take away all TV rights and exclude them from bowl eligibility for the next ten years. The cover up was for no other reason than money. Take "that" away from them.

Once again a celebrity is not remembered for what they really were. Not that I condone what one individual did but dragging the one who passed away with them is unforgiveable. I hate when this happens to someone great as Joe Paterno!

According the report, he was scum, not "great" - maybe "great scum".

At this late date, let the current team play this season. Then shut down the program and give the current players time to go to other teams. They were not part of the scandal.

Covering up criminal activity all the way to the top of administration is the definition of "lack of institutional control"

Almost all NCAA sanctions effect coaches, students etc. that were not involved in the activity for which the sanction is given. That argument is a non-starter. If the NCAA were to follow that logic there would be no sanctions or control whatsoever possible.

Blessings Upon You

>>>Almost all NCAA sanctions effect coaches, students etc. that were not involved in the activity for which the sanction is given. >>>

Yes, but at least they're still allowed to play. The "death penalty" would be a different kind of sanction.

If they did give Penn State the "death penalty," the NCAA should at least let the players transfer to other schools and be eligible to play right away. Rather than the usual rule where transfers have to sit out for a year or whatever it is.

While they didn't get the death penalty the NCAA (and I) appear to agree with you that the athletes should have the opportunity to to transfer without penalty. This will be controversial for a long time. If nothing else comes of this at least I pray that the penalty handed down will help to prevent this situation from recurring anywhere else.

Blessings Upon You

Peen State should volunteer to shut down their football program for one year or the NCAA will impose the Death Penalty on them.
Ask SMU how that turned out for them.

This was the sick behavior of one individual. The others people who "condoned" it by not reporting it to the law are no longer there.

If they do it will just hurt the players. If this happens the NCAA should allow them to transfer to other schools and play right away.

Clean house! Get the perverts and enablers out of there! Put those in jail who need to be in jail, fire the rest and get some decent people in there...if there indeed are any.

For one season.

So, because of a few "adults" that didn't do what was right and allowed a man to continue to ruin the lives of 10+ children. The fact that they are even considering ruining the dreams and goals of 200+ sons and daughters that have dreamed of playing for PSU and marching for PSU is okay? The question itself is ignorant.

Pedophiles gonna screw innocent children while the Pen State establishment looks on.

still......haters gonna hate

Joe's dead. Leave him be and get off PSU's ass.

Why punish the CURRENT footlball players, coaches, grounds crew, ticket agents, concession stand employees PLUS hundreds of thousands of fans for the actions of a few? Those known participants have been fired and/or face imprisonment... Isn't that enough? When Reagan and his co-conspirators sold ARMS (as in weapons) to our Iranian "buddies", NO ONE even went to jail! Now this? Crazy over-reaction as I seeit!

An example must be made so other programs do not tolerate similar behavior.

Too many innocent people who had nothing to do with all of this would suffer.

At SMU the coaches, players and alumni were all involved in the situation. The crimes at Penn State are far greater than paying players but it did not involve players or students and to give the death penalty would impact everyone. It's a tough call as I think people should go to jail but where do we draw the line on punishment? A death penalty doesn't punish the people who commited the crimes at Penn State any more than it punishes the third year philosphy student. How is that just?

they should just for the reason 4 people in charge never did any thing and didnt care about the children there just to put it under the carpet they should close the collage im stilll waighting to take down the dampiece of crap of him in frount of collage

Fire the staff, clean house from top to bottom, but don't make the students have to pay the price.

yes

The people that perpetrated the cover up are all gone no longer employed by Penn State! Why punish the kids on the team that play their butts off for something they had no part of?

No, it would be wrong to punish the young men who worked so hard to get their to play ball for the actions of people they had no control over. I would, however, like to see Penn State be fined steeply with the proceeds split among the victims or perhaps distributed to an area child-abuse support organization.

Defininately so. For at least two seasons, and infinitly until Penn State has established
and agrees to strictly and vigourously enforce TOUGH regulations governing the conduct
of their administration, staff, and faculty regarding the safety and welfare of all minor people, be they students, guests, visitors, male or female (after all, I don't wish to see any
girls go through any similar nightmares as these boys did), etc. both on campus and also
at any off campus activities under Penn States jurisdiction. It might also be prudent to
require NCAA monitoring of all Penn State youth activities for a while, on all remaining
youth programs as a condition of their continued existance at Penn State. While youth
programs are a vital part of any college or university program, the safety and welfare of
inocent young people MUST be an essential part of any and all of these programs. Tough
policies must be strictly enforced at any program involving inocent youth, and colleges
and universities. These young people are prospective future students for all of these
institutions of higher education (and several may already actually be full fledged students
of the same), and their well being while on campus and/or under their jurisdiction must
be addressed by all parties that are involved with the same.

You know, I don't know. It's probably a blessing that Joe Paterno passed. I would say that they could use this to begin a new and NEVER AGAIN allow anything like this to happen here. If it does again, SHUT ER DOWN!

No, you can't shut down something because most of its members are corrupt.... what would happen to the Democrap party?

From your lips to God's ear....shutting down the demoncrats would indeed solve 95% of our woes and prob.ems

How rediculous. The perpetrators shold be punished and put in jail or fired. The football team did nothing illegal, why shut it down....

Not unless they also shut down Da U as well!