The Lions' Pride

Amen

Isn't there a certain time period where he can appeal the NCAA sanctions?
30 days or something?
If he doesn't formally go through with the appeal within whatever timeframe required, it can hurt his legal standing later on when he decides to try and bring it to court since he didn't officially exhaust his options by trying to appeal to the NCAA first.
I think.

In this case, the risks far outweigh the rewards. You cannot put the whole university and State College community in jeopardy just to "save" football. I'm not saying you have to like it, but this is the best move for the University.

Don't forget the fact that you can't even defend yourself ir give your side if the story at all. You have some idiot assuming you did it all.

I just don't see the risk in following through with this appeal. The NCAA isn't going to suddenly impose a death penalty and to think that they will revisit the sanctions in two or three years if we sit here and take it seems to be wishful thinking. Plus, I want Freeh challenged in some forum.

Why wouldn't they just impose a death penalty? They do what they want, when they want knowing that their actions towards member schools falls outside the jurisdiction of the courts. You are naive to think that the NCAA couldn't and wouldn't do anything.

Especially when you never resist them. Again, they aren't winning the PR battle on this one and the purpose for imposing these sanctions in the first place was to appease the mob that they perceived to be clamoring for action of some kind.

Fair enough, but you don't put the university in that position. If it loses, it will cost PSU hundreds of millions more (one of the sanctions will surely be to fully fund all other sports with zero football revenue). No Big Ten. No football. Athletics department destroyed. Community in turmoil. That is what you all want to take a chance with, when all indicators are pointing towards PSU losing in the courts?

Is it really that important to you?

Where did I say the University should be put in that position?

Yes, the NCAA would hand down the DP. It would go and launch it's own investigation and then conclude that PSU was grossly negligent and upon further consideration, they feel we need to not play football for 4 years.

The NCAA does what it wants. As the two lawyers have said, the courts cannot dictate how the NCAA punishes it's members.

They aren't going to spend 4 years with no championship game. They aren't going to wait another 10 years for us to get back up to speed. Hell, they would be better off with Rutgers at that point.

We aren't the only university with quality academics.

Still not getting it. Like most everything else, they are all about the money. Penn State is the most economically vital member of the B1G. We bring the Northeast eyeballs to the BTN. The rest of this conference sits in the heart of the most depressed areas of the country, the Rust Belt and The Farm Belt. Good luck generating advertiser revenue without subs in NYC, Philly, Boston, DC, and Balti. Not to mention the destruction of the B1G Hockey Conference. FOX or NBCSN would not want that to happen. Our leadership simply did not realize the immense economic power it wielded and folded too easily.