The Blue Board

Believe what you want to, but no one else will share in it. I see the cult is still very strong.

No no no. You know the American public doesn't like to do independent research or read on their own. It wasn't on CNN, Fox News, CBS, NBC or ESPN... How can they find it... I'll post it for them and make it easy. We all know how lazy mobs are.

"According to ESPN and other media organizations, NCAA president Mark Emmert has elected to issue sanctions on Monday (July 23, 2012) against Pennsylvania State University, including a loss of scholarships and a multiple-year bowl ban. If the media reports are true, then the NCAA has charted an unprecedented, and perhaps unconstitutional, course of action. Federal and state courts have consistently held that membership organizations, including athletics associations like the NCAA, are required to provide procedures that protect their members against arbitrary and irrational action. Thus, an NCAA rule or decision cannot be applied unreasonably so that it creates different classes of schools. Accordingly, any NCAA sanction against Penn State at this stage may potentially violate federal and state notions of due and fair process for several reasons, including, but not limited to:

The conduct of Penn State and its employees, no matter how egregious, is not a violation of an existing NCAA rule. In fact, according to available information, the NCAA has never interpreted, or issued sanctions under, existing rules to address only criminal violations (or the cover-up of criminal violations). Further, the NCAA has chosen to make criminal activity an NCAA rules-violation in limited circumstances (i.e., Bylaw 10.2 (Knowledge of Use of Banned Drugs) and Bylaw 31.2.3.4 (Banned Drugs))—and the activities described in the report by former FBI director Louis J. Freeh are not addressed in the NCAA Division I Manual.
The NCAA did not establish and publish a process and procedure to address the issues relevant in Penn State’s case. Instead, the NCAA is utilizing an ad-hoc process that has not been explained fully to the membership or the public.
The NCAA is not adhering to its existing enforcement processes and procedures.
The NCAA is treating Penn State differently than other schools that were involved in sexual assault scandals or other serious criminal misconduct.
The NCAA failed to provide Penn State: (a) a written notice of allegations; (b) an opportunity to respond to the notice of allegations; (c) a hearing before an NCAA infractions committee to address the allegations; and (d) a process for an appeal of NCAA findings and sanctions.
As legal counsel for colleges and universities before NCAA committees, we are extremely concerned about the possible NCAA actions and urge the organization to comply with its existing processes and procedures to address the Penn State sexual abuse scandal. In addition, based on our review of the Freeh report, the issues facing Penn State are best left in the expert hands of the criminal and civil courts, the federal Departments of Justice and Education, the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the relevant accrediting agencies."

The Michael L. Buckner Law Firm will issue a comprehensive statement on its blog (http://michaelbucknerlaw.wordpress.com/) after the NCAA announces the Penn State penalties.

I don't give a shit about due process.

No one wants to hear this shit. Just STFU and deal with this. Your school is a blight on college athletics. The more your protest the less people will respect your school.

The NCAA is going to announce crippling sanctions. They will not be overturned. Penn State is going to lose a lot of prestige. Deal with it.

Deal with it why? The NCAA is overreaching. We should be dealt with by the feds and the courts. And we will. The whole "oh, you aren't punished until the NCAA does something" lacks perspective. It really does.

You are getting mad for us saying that we did not have due process and that we didn't break any NCAA bylaws. What we are saying isn't wrong.

we are marshall?

The more people try to blame the alums, students, faculty, staff member and basically the university as a whole the less I respect them. I have lost so much respect for the posters of tBB and college football fans as a whole.

Well I don't believe all alums and fans are standing up for the people who covered this up. I believe most understand how horrible this is. By staff I was referring to the ones not involved in the cover up.

What I am talking about is the hundreds of thousands of PSU fans, alums, etc... that had no idea this was going on. Why are they being blamed for this? Why does everyone want their blood? The leadership that covered this up basically failed these people as well and now everyone wants to blame those people. I don't get the hate and bloodlust for the people who had nothing to do with the cover up.

so, you think that ALL of the alum, fans, and everyone else is being blamed for this?

the only thing i can think of is that you are arguing against the punishment?

i think you are misunderstanding the fact that everyone hates penn state much like everyone hated germany.

not everyone in germany was in the SS, or even a Nazi... but they were all equally reviled during the war... why is that?

thanks, and goodbye

ha ha ha ha...

okay, man, we get it.. you don't rape kids.

Nor do the other people that you are showing hate towards in the PSU community.

ha ha ha ha...

yeah, i am not showing hate towards anyone, except for penn state apologists, and the creeps that defend everyone on some sort of disbelieving knee-jerk reaction

ha ha ha...

you are generalizing, but mad about others generalizing.