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- Penn State: NCAA sanctions are justified - Salt Lake Tribune Editorial
The NCAA achieved just the right balance in the punishment it dealt Penn State University after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys while employed in the university's storied football program.The sanctions handed out by the college athletic association and the comments made Monday by NCAA President Mark Emmert reflect the horrifying findings about the university's complicity in Sandusky's crimes over many years. Emmert pointed to the damning conclusions of a nearly 300-page report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, commissioned by the university's new administrators. ...... Emmert rightly blamed not only the individuals who should have put a stop to Sandusky's crimes but an overarching culture of "hero worship" and widely held belief that the Penn State football program was "too big to fail," and too powerful to confront. ...
- Penn State's penalties inadequate, need to temporarily suspend football program - Deseret News Editorial
The NCAA's toolbox of penalties seems completely inadequate to deal with what former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky did and how head coach Joe Paterno and the administration at Penn State looked the other way. While the NCAA's penalties against the program, announced earlier this week, are harsh and potentially devastating to the program, they are not far from the four-year postseason ban imposed on the University of Indiana in 1960 for recruiting violations.The sexual abuse of young boys, and the official decision to sweep evidence of those crimes under the rug with full understanding that such abuses were likely to continue, is so far removed from recruiting violations that it seems wrong to equate the two in any way. ...
- Penn State penalty sends a message - Denver Post Editorial
... We'd like to think most big-time programs would never stoop so low to protect their image as Penn State did. But if they needed a deterrent to behave, now they've got one.
- Penn State in perspective - Los Angeles Times Editorial
The problem for the NCAA is that the culture that led the university astray for the sake of its football team is not unique in big-time college athletics.
- Victims more important than any team - Arizona Republic Editorial
- NCAA takes direct aim at Paterno's legacy and rightly so - San Jose Mercury News Editorial
- Penn State scandal shows danger of secrecy - Des Moines Register Editorial
- NCAA hammer: Penn State receives severe punishment - Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial