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Emmert spewing more nonsense

  • wideout said...

    The bad culture Freeh alludes to is partially false. Penn State had/has a great reputation for graduating its athletes; however, whether you think Paterno did enough or not, Spanier did not do enough and it can be inferred quite easily by outsiders that there was a culture of silence - which was not reporting the egregious acts meted out to these young and highly impressionable kids. To many people, that was unforgivable. As president, Spanier had the ultimate responsibility in this case to ensure that the authorities had all the information and that there were no errors in communication between the parties at Penn State and local authorities. Emmert's unilateral handling of the Penn State matter was unprecedented. He never should have forced Erickson to take his ultimatum, which essentially was death penalty of four years or sanctions. This was a criminal, not an NCAA matter. The entire Sandusky debacle is such an incredibly complicated legal case which can be parsed and interpreted in many different ways - depending upon your connections to Penn State. One thing is certain, Penn State was held to a standard never before used, while North Carolina will get away with gross academic fraud.

    You're right about Spanier, but here's the kicker on that...

    IT'S NOT AN ATHLETIC ISSUE, thus rendering the NCAA out of its jurisdiction. It's a Department of Education issue then.

    This isn't, nor has it ever been an athletic department issue. The athletic department, and more specifically got slammed because Mark Emmerts very good friend Vicky Triponey, whom he had hired at UConn (What's their graduation rates for Basketball?) was a disgruntled former employee of Penn State.

    I firmly believe, and no one will change my mind. Mark Emmert used his position to exact revenge for his friend, and show Penn State all about their culture, which Vicky Triponey said was out of whack.

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  • "He pointed out that the Freeh Report was far more comprehensive than anything the NCAA could have done and was completed in far less time. He said it would have taken the NCAA a year to get less information"

    Well at least I agree on one thing with Emmert, he runs an incompetent organization. So basically the NCAA also wouldn't have enough of a brain to have interviewed anybody directly involved in the incident, wouldn't have been able to even 'question' ancillary and fringe people as well as Freeh did to get their presumptions and sell them as fact, and it would have taken them a lot longer to turn out even more of a piece of crap. That's about right for that band of idiots.

    edtee

  • white_out said...

    You're right about Spanier, but here's the kicker on that...

    IT'S NOT AN ATHLETIC ISSUE, thus rendering the NCAA out of its jurisdiction. It's a Department of Education issue then.

    This isn't, nor has it ever been an athletic department issue. The athletic department, and more specifically got slammed because Mark Emmerts very good friend Vicky Triponey, whom he had hired at UConn (What's their graduation rates for Basketball?) was a disgruntled former employee of Penn State.

    I firmly believe, and no one will change my mind. Mark Emmert used his position to exact revenge for his friend, and show Penn State all about their culture, which Vicky Triponey said was out of whack.

    +1

    TpaFan

  • white_out said...

    You're right about Spanier, but here's the kicker on that...

    IT'S NOT AN ATHLETIC ISSUE, thus rendering the NCAA out of its jurisdiction. It's a Department of Education issue then.

    This isn't, nor has it ever been an athletic department issue. The athletic department, and more specifically got slammed because Mark Emmerts very good friend Vicky Triponey, whom he had hired at UConn (What's their graduation rates for Basketball?) was a disgruntled former employee of Penn State.

    I firmly believe, and no one will change my mind. Mark Emmert used his position to exact revenge for his friend, and show Penn State all about their culture, which Vicky Triponey said was out of whack.

    I am so glad you said this. I have been reading and reading and have no idea why more isn't said about this. It is complete BS that he is getting revenge for Tripony. I tell you what, I want an investigation on that lady and dig up all her dirt everywhere....Emmert is a joke.

    PSUDOG

  • Hamilton Lion said...

    Remember, this is the moron who presides over investigators who couldn't nail Auburn for buying Cam Newton where the trace of money could have been found by some six year old kid in Bangledesh and the same investigators who couldn't trace back all the fake grades for several student-athletes at UNC. No one at the NCAA is sharp enough to conduct investigations on their own, so they have to have someone else to do it.

    Who says they didnt find it?
    We all know Cam was paid & it would not have looked good if the team that plays for the SEC Championship & Nat'l Championship would have to be remoed from the game. They would lose alot of $. In four years, they will likely find evidnece that Camp was paid & strip the title from Auburn.
    And they will require Aubrn to give them money back to them. Monopolies like the ncaa can do what they want. If we had some strong Pa Congressman, who would raise wholly hell, we might have these sanctions revisited by threatening ncaa monopoly status.

    jimscranton

  • The scariest part is that obviously the ncaa is being led by an man who is not very bright. His statement basically admitting that he was unable to understand what Freeh even wrote in his report is shocking. His ability to comprehend basic english is apalling. Perhaps the real culture problem is that Penn State is educating people more than Emmert and the executive council of the NCAA is educated and they had to act to try to bring PSU grads back down to their level as a way to try to cover up the fact that they could not even pass a PSU's freshman english composition course. Just look at what they have said regarding recruiting our players after the season. Depending on who you talk to at the NCAA you can get any number of interpretations of those rules. Why? Because they are not written clearly at all, and so there is no concise way to interpret them. Everything that the NCAA attempts to espouse as a value they hold, they show in their actions that they themselves fail miserably.

    taa120

  • RWC5113 said...

    Is it bad if I honesty hope he dies in a fire? Sincerely and wholeheartedly? With my only pause for thought being that some poor firefighter will have to put out the flames?

    Shit smells bad when you burn it so yeah, I'd feel bad for the firefighter that had to put him out also.

    Emmert: "“You can’t have part of an organization that’s so revered and so powerful that not only can you not control it, you can’t even ask a question,”

    You mean exactly what he has done by not allowing the possibility of an appeal?

    Rhetorical.

    Go die horribly Emmert.

    This post was edited by The Heel on 9/23/2012 at 7:37 AM

    The Heel

  • Psu2011 said...

    http://www.freep.com/article/20120921/SPORTS06/120921067/ncaa-mark-emmert-dave-brandon-michigan

    frustrated

    I hate this guy..

    "As for the criminal case against Sandusky, he said if the school had brought it forward in 1998 and separated itself at that time, the NCAA never would have been involved."

    .. He obviously did NOT read the Freeh report.

    I don't think for one minute, numbnut read the Freeh Report. He listened to the press conference and went from there.

    Hamilton Lion

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