NCAA to Announce “Unprecedented Penalties” Against Penn State, According to CBS News

CBS News is reporting that the NCAA will announce what a high ranking official called “unprecedented penalties” against Penn State University and the football program. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” the source told Armen Keteyian.

The announcement from President Mark Emmert is supposed to occur tomorrow morning at 9 a.m.

Of course, you might recall the last time CBS News and Armen Keteyian had the big exclusive in regard to the Penn State Scandal: the much-hyped (by CBS) Mike McQueary interview. It lasted a whole 24 seconds, and gave us “like a snow globe.” Based on that prior precedent, I can only assume that these unprecedented penalties involve the loss of a scholarship for the football team.

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21 Responses to “NCAA to Announce “Unprecedented Penalties” Against Penn State, According to CBS News”

Some Random Old Dude Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:31 AM

Double top secret probation.

Based on that prior precedent, I can only assume that these unprecedented penalties involve the loss of a scholarship for the football team.

“Disperse, people. Nothing to see here. Go on with your lives as if nothing happened.”

Roethlishotdog Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:33 AM

CBS News is reporting that the NCAA will announce what a high ranking official called “unprecedented penalties” against Penn State University and the football program.

For which NCAA violation?

Monster is Meth Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:36 AM

Unprecedented action=no action

captain_spalding Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:42 AM

Smells like at least no football for two years, and no bowl games for a couple after that.

Full Point (1000) Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:50 AM

For that reason, I have decided that it is in the best interest of our university and public safety to remove the statue and store it in a secure location.

Some Random Old Dude Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:51 AM

Smells like at least no football for two years, and no bowl games for a couple after that.

Really? Sounds a little “scorched earth policy” to me.

njensen79 Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:54 AM

Come To Penn State!

molemaninthemorning Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:59 AM

Penn State killed McNair!

Liquor Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 9:59 AM

Well this should finally put an end to all sexual abuse, thank goodness. NCAA truly is heroic.

Liquor Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 10:05 AM

Its amazing that a fucking statue is front page news EVERYWHERE. Shootings, nah. Presidential election, nah. Drought, nah. Fucking statue.

I’m still interested in what NCAA rule was broken, and how a first offense could possibly be “worst penalty evar.”

molemaninthemorning Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 10:09 AM

I honestly figured they would take at least a year to do anything. Has the NCAA already done its investigation?

golfercraig Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 10:20 AM

If only PSU was a Catholic University. They could have just transferred Sandusky to be DC at another school, and no one would be the wiser.

ohheelyeah Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 10:27 AM

I’m still interested in what NCAA rule was broken, and how a first offense could possibly be “worst penalty evar.”

I am as well.

sincerely,

everyone

jekyll Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Guess here is that the only “unprecedented” part will be the lack of a notice of allegations, hearings, etc. Penalties themselves will probably be the usual stuff.

scripty Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 11:32 AM

Has PSU penalized itself yet? This is odd. Usually a school can say we are doing X and the NCAA agrees or disagrees.

Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 11:38 AM

If only PSU was a Catholic University. They could have just transferred Sandusky to be DC at another school, and no one would be the wiser.

Don’t be naive. You missed the step of using collection plate money to pay off the victims, and to relocate Sandusky.

Rufio Magillicutty Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 11:49 AM

I’m still interested in what NCAA rule was broken, and how a first offense could possibly be “worst penalty evar.”

They enabled a serial child rapist for 12+ years because they didn’t want the football program to lose money. But technically they didn’t commit any NCAA violations, so lets just not do anything, right?

Nice world we live in

Sir Spicious Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 12:04 PM

Penn State football revenue in 2010: $70M
Penn State fundraising revenue in 2011: $208M
Penn State operating budget in 2012: $4.3B

After reading the Freeh report and learning about things like the report ignoring Spanier batting down the BoT trying to gain more oversight over operations that this had much more to do with protecting Spanier’s autonomy and fundraising than with protecting the football team or Joe Paterno or Jerry Sandusky.

Liquor Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 12:24 PM

lets just not do anything, right?

Everyone involved in jail, soon to be in jail, or dead. Fines to be levied, civil punishments to be paid, legacies destroyed, reputations ruined.

But if the NCAA doesn’t do gussy up some charges and look tough, everyone got off scott free!

heldover Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 12:33 PM

Its amazing that a fucking statue is front page news EVERYWHERE. Shootings, nah. Presidential election, nah. Drought, nah. Fucking statue.

How could this be front page news “everywhere”? Which newspapers got news of this before they went to print and decided to put THIS on the front page? Or do you mean websites? Because if so…

Presidential election – been going on for months, will continue to go on for months
Drought – Been going on, still going on. Nothing changing.
Colorado theater shooting – Happened Thursday. Unless authorities release some new devastating info about the lunatic who did this, it is older news than this.

I’m not disagreeing with the idea of your post, just the way you presented it.

Monster is Meth Says:
July 22nd, 2012 at 5:32 PM

Well stated.