The Blue Board

You are attacking the entire PSU fanbase. You are saying the entire fanbase enabled child rape without even knowing it was going on because their leaders failed them. The only people responsible for this are Sandusky and the individuals who covered it up. If you think anyone else deserves punishment then you are wrong in everyway. The only people the victims should have anger toward are Sandusky and the PSU leadership that failed them. The hundreds of thousands of PSU fans did not fail the victims and they should not be blamed for this in anyway.

Now i am done with you. You are going on ignore forever because i simply don't like you as a human being.

Clearly someone doesn't understand how NCAA sanctions work. Ask Terrell Pryor or Reggie Bush how much they were affected by OSU/USC's sanctions.

PSU deserves these 100% and while it sucks that their fanbase has to pay for it, it is what it is. The entire upper administration of that university could have prevented this from happening, but they didn't.

Michigan's running back arrested for drunk driving?

Suspend him. For the Umass game.

Suspend everyone for the ND game, and Denard will still find a way to make ND lose.

at least he deals with them

All programs have these issues, but punish them differently. At MSU, he would be back on the practice field after one practice.

That sucks. I gueses Thomas Rawls is going to start against Alabama.

One practice is long enough to sober up after the incident, I don't see the problem.

It sucks that Toussaint got arrested. If you suspend him you pretty much eliminate the slim chance Michigan had of beating Alabama, but if you let him play you send the message that some players can get away with things that should be punished. I personally think he needs to be suspended for two or three games.

That might have had more to do with the fact that the first incident didn't happen while Hoke was coach.

See, this is the disconnect, the "you are basically blaming hundreds of thousands of people . . . "

A few things.

1) Sanctions are punitive measures meant on making sure that the violation doesn't happen again. It's negative reinforcement. The people responsible for the violations are almost always gone from the program by the time the sanctions come down. To not sanction the program essentially allows a team to cheat, and then when they get caught and finally go through the whole process, they're able to say that "the guilty parties aren't here, don't hurt us", and basically reap the benefit of the cheating years with 0 repercussions.

2) No one is hating on the entire PSU fanbase. The ONLY thing people have issues with are the PSU fans calling this worse than what Sandusky did.

3) If you take a step back and look at this, those hundreds of thousands of people are somewhat to blame. You see, it's the power of a fanbase that made JoePa and Sandusky so powerful. When you have all that support and reverence towards a few individuals, it allows them to wield tremendous power. That power, in turn, was used to mask an absolutely horrific series of events. In that respect, the entire culture of PSU football needed to be changed, as it enabled Sandusky to commit the crimes he did, and allowed JoePa to cover for him.