The Lions' Pride

Nothing to see here. Move along.

The irony:

“I think you can expect when the NCAA is ready to talk about what the appropriate actions are with regard to Penn State, that we’ll be ready to talk about appropriate actions with regard to the conference as well,” said University of Iowa president Sally Mason, chairman of the conference’s powerful council of presidents and chancellors.

“We are dealing with an unprecedented situation,” Mason said during last week’s interview. “It clearly is a sports-related incident, but it’s also indicative of systemic institutional failures – a moral failure as well a legal failure — and we as a conference want to do everything we can to both send a very strong message to our conference member, and at the same time also help Penn State find ways to really get back to emphasizing the great educational institution that it is.”

Big Ten bylaws give the conference power to punish members failing to provide complete, accurate information during an investigation. Sanctions, which can include suspension of programs or removal from the conference, require approval by at least eight of the 12 schools.

“The conference definitely has jurisdiction to take action in a case like this,” Mason said. “Exactly what actions we’ll take. . . it’s premature.”

I'd suggest a 4-year crippling sanctions for all of their intercollegiate athletics teams since this was clearly a "sports-related incident", a $100 million fine and other actions to correct the culture of silence that obviously exists in Iowa City.

Let's throw some friendly bets around:

#1: How long or if even will it take for ESPN to produce any kind of story on this?

#2: Will there, if any, be sactions from the Big Ten or the NCAA?

I will start:
1. No story from ESPN.
2. No Sanctions from anyone.

Which should tell us all that as soon as ESPN ran with the PSU story it was bound to become big news. I love the part in the mini movie where the guy was at his gym and JS and DS were there with no reporters following but JVP couldn't get to his car without an escort.

Bilas has been saying that since the sanctions were announced.

I emailed Adam Rittenberg, encouraging him to call for sanctions for Iowa or a reduction for PSU. Told him "journalists" were supposed to expose problems with the system, and he could try to help fix this one. Doubtful, but we'll see.

This is a non-issue.

What happened to us was purely a product of the media. We were a juicy story, and ESPN took it and blew it up. We had a legend coach at a huge institution ignoring a former coach who was raping children (or at least, so you all don't assault me, that was the perception). This is boring. Will amount to nothing.

The Big Ten and NCAA are political institutions. If there was any doubt before, what they did to us was final evidence. The politics of this issue will be completely different due to a total lack of media response.

I have to agree with this. Plus we have to factor in that sexual harassment has a long history of being ignored and pushed aside. These types of stories hit the local news, maybe some sports gossip blogs like bustedcoverage and sportsbybrooks then it is yesterday's news.

Like left said the names and the details (driven by the public release of the GJ presentment) made PSU a huge news story.

I don't expect it to "blow up", although it should. The media should be all over this and the ncaa should follow with some very harsh sanctions against the football program. That seems about right based on the precedent they set with Penn State.

Frenenz might have heard something about this. He covered up"! Fire him. Ruin the University. Fire everyone! Theres a problem with that whole town.

The national media is starting to pick up the story. The 4 letter network has a story along with the liberal rags like the Huffington Post. Looks like this complaint was filed to the City of Iowa, not sure if that forced the Universities hand to investigate. I bet when they start turning over stones they are going to find a great deal of nasty stuff. I hope the investigation encourages victims that were too scared to file complaints to come forward. I believe the Sandusky scandal is causing many Universities to lose sleep at night because I believe there are many dark secrets out there.

Even if he didn't hear about it, he should have done more.

You do know the Sandusky story first broke March/April 2011 time frame and it took 6 months to explode. I am sure more will come out as they continue the investigation.