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Are other media guys thinking the NCAA overstepped yesterday?

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Jul 24 '12, 11:39

Keown on ESPN has a story up about how unfair the sanctions are ...

like having a quality football program is a god-given right instead of a privilege.

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I'd like to see the NCAA impose a salary cap on coaches so nobody makes more than say $250k/yr -- nm - Max Jul 24, 12:04 1
- And term limits. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 24, 12:04
I think the penalty is kinda dumb in most respects. - Jim Jul 24, 11:44 11
- Current players can transfer. Other schools granted extra scholarship spots for them, even. -- nm - The Dark Spawn Jul 24, 11:51 3
  - Oh sure...there's that. My concern, for the current players though...they're still kinda screwed. - Jim Jul 24, 11:56 2
    - If they're good, there will be spots...if they're not; they can stop playing and retain free rides.... - Will Hunting Jul 24, 11:58
    - I am sure the NCAA will expedite the transfer process. I like that the current scholarships can just not play, and still get the ride, too. - The Dark Spawn Jul 24, 11:57
- Showing Penn State that institutional control is a requirement - something I don't think the Board of Trustees *still* gets. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 24, 11:46 4
  - yeah, they all need to go - znufrii Jul 24, 11:48 3
    - they really do, but I don't get an *all new* board, with no institutional knowledge, helps anything. -- nm - world's most beautiful creature Jul 24, 11:52 2
      - put them on a schedule so they're all rotated out over the next 2 years, rather than all at once. -- nm - znufrii Jul 24, 11:53 1
        
        I think it's more than two years, but yeah, accelerate the schedule. -- nm - world's most beautiful creature Jul 24, 11:54
- it's the Board and former officials who are not getting penalized that I have a problem with -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 11:45 1
  - Yep. What's the point of the penalty if a large group of the problem aren't punished at all? -- nm - Jim Jul 24, 11:46
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- That's why Keown was surprising, he's usually not a joke -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 24, 11:43
- Oh we have one...same dude who was yelling at a Yahoo sports writer and a Missouri congresswoman last week. -- nm - Jim Jul 24, 11:42 4
  - Bill James. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 24, 11:54 3
    - Nope, Kevin Slaten. Compelte douchebag of a human being. -- nm - Jim Jul 24, 11:59 2
      - No, I mean that Bill James is being contrarian. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 24, 12:07 1
        
        Ok, I'm with you now. Honetly, I have such a frickin headache, I'm having trouble completing a thought. -- nm - Jim Jul 24, 12:08
I think the didn't get fined near enough, they're penalizing the students with the taking away of scholarships... - Remlik Jul 24, 11:40 9
- no one lost a scholarship. -- nm - loosilu Jul 24, 12:05
- They penalize 10 guys a year from the privilege of going to PSU ... they took care of the current kids great. - Will Hunting Jul 24, 11:42 5
  - anyone applying to there will be doing so because they know they are on the bubble or just not good enough elsewhere -- nm - zork Jul 24, 11:51 3
    - Or maybe, just maybe, because Penn State has an academic program they really want to get into. -- nm - mara Jul 24, 12:05 2
      - Then, join up and take your beatings on the field like the bottom feeders of the NCAAFB world do. - Will Hunting Jul 24, 12:12
      - I'm too jaded to think that kids are applying to top athletic programs for the actual education - zork Jul 24, 12:09
  - I did like how they took care of current kids. -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 11:44
- and I was reading the $60 mill fine comes out of the university and not the sports program -- nm - Remlik Jul 24, 11:41 1
  - Incorrect. It must come from football revenue. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 24, 11:45
Most people I've heard think it was either appropriate or that they didn't go far enough. -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 24, 11:39 1
- (sports talking guys, that is.) -- nm - Kim Pine Jul 24, 11:39

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