It will be interesting to see what or if any action the NCAA takes with this since the conviction.
How do you figure the NCAA has any jurisdiction on the Sandusky thing? I apologize in advance if I'm missing something but this seems like a an external PSU matter.
Interesting article in the Tennessean about Penn State's liability.
Great article, thanks for posting it. For all of Penn State's supposed remorse over this, they just want it to go away so they can pretend nothing happened and go back to acting like they are better than everyone else.
PSU is getting blistered. Coaches, or ex-coaches are facing prison time. The main character just began to spend the rest of his life in prison. Once it is all over this may cost the school $100 million (my number) paid in legal fees and settlements. But there are intangibles that cannot be so easily calculated, such as when the PSU AD calls Arizona Goat Riders University and the AD for the Goat Riders says, "Coach we'd love to play you guys, but frankly, our guys would have to wear rubber gloves the whole weekend, after we heard how ya'll act". A big circle of Goat Rider assistant coaches are heard laughing in the background as the AD hangs up the phone.
The criminal courts will take care of the felonies the same as is done every day in courtrooms and courthouses around America. Then our out of control Trial Lawyers will butcher the PSU hog and leave no scraps. The coaches and administrators will be sued out of their britches, judgments entered and executions and levies issued on every available asset of the individuals. Then in class action the same process will go after the university and their vast assets. I don't pretend to know the law but I would guess PSU would stall and let Curley and the boys get sued individually in order to see what additional damaging evidence and legal briefs were used in the civil cases filed by smaller law firms against the individuals.
I wonder how many dependable, every tax season, PSU alumni (and otherwise) donors there are that PSU alumni affairs is having touble getting on the phone? If Bama had spent my donations on an office for Sandusky I think I'd be giving to Wounded Warriors this year instead. How many recruits (we saw some in February) changed or will change their mind on PSU. Try hiring an administrator from outside the PSU family to come to work under these conditions.
The NCAA has to do absolutely nothing and these guys are getting the worst beating any team ever has. Ask the Mustangs if they could reverse time and switch places with PSU. They deserve what they are getting and with newspapers failing, I realize why the guy wrote the article. But the NCAA hasn't said a word about piling on, nor are any of the big boys (ESPN or CBS) even calling for it. Some beat writer in Nashville won't change that-- but even he admits it. This is a criminal matter and the justice system and the civil courts will deal out the punishment.
FYI, this won't be a class action because the "class" is sufficiently small and identifiable, and damages are uniquely individual. There likely will be one, large civil suit filed or consolidated against the university and administrators. The university might file a motion to separate the individual claims and then seek to go to trial on the weakest claim first for precendential purposes and ultimate settlement value. The plaintiff lawyers likely will attempt to stick with one suit, at least on liability, for piling on (get the jury riled up at just how horribly PSU neglected all these children).
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