NCAA must die.

I am not a Penn State fan.  Got friends and extended family who went there, but I couldn’t give a damn about Penn State qua Penn State.

But this NCAA penalty is a travesty of justice.  Sure, take away the wins.  Give the death penalty to the coaches and anybody else in the management of the organization who knew about Sandusky and didn’t do anything about it.  Prosecute those fuckers within an inch of their lives.  Exhume Joe Paterno and throw his bones on a bonfire.

Leave the kids alone.

You’ve fucked this program over completely.  It has no money (you’re taking it all).  It has no recruiting prospects (because you’ve destroyed its post-season for four (effectively eight) years).  It has only loyalty keeping its existing players (because now they’re eligible to transfer without penalty, other than the fact that it’s too late in the game to get scholarships).

You have screwed every member of the football team who had absolutely nothing to do with the Sandusky affair. Even if they’d known about it, there’s nothing they could have done about it.  Who listens to undergraduates?

You’ve screwed the students and the alumni who love their university and their football team.  Say what you will about the rotten culture behind it.  That could have been fixed (it was fixed — Paterno retired and died, the organization was gutted beneath him) and football could have continued, maybe with a period of adjustment, certainly with a period of cleansing and penance, but continued nonetheless without harming the innocent.

And if you don’t think the innocent have been harmed, see the photo accompanying this article.  And the ones accompanying this article.  Thanks, NCAA.  You just fucked over these kids’ university for something they had nothing to do with.

This is NOT how you solve this problem.  Penn State alumni and students should file the biggest class-action lawsuit in history against the NCAA and any individual who knew about Jerry Sandusky’s, er, predeliction.  With the right judge they might even have a chance of winning.

Ever since the NCAA committed seppuku by hiring as its president one of the most vociferously anti-collegiate-sports university presidents ever to blacken the ground at a Big Ten school (may you rot in the hell you so justly deserve, Miles Fucking Brand — and I fervently hope Satan is a Bobby Knight fan), I’ve believed that it’s time to move on.  By this action, the NCAA has lost any remaining shreds of respect I might have had for it.

Penn State got screwed.  And Jerry Sandusky and the rest of the assholes responsible for this idiotic denouement didn’t even blow them a kiss.

5 Replies to “NCAA must die.”

  1. The kids playing had nothing to do with it, had no way of knowing what was going on and covered up. You cannot even make the argument they were morally culpable.
    Punishing the players at Penn State for something that happened while they were in elementary school is akin to firing Admiral Thomas Moorer as Joint Chief of Staff, stripping him of rank, and drumming him out of the Navy for Watergate and Nixon’s cover up.

  2. This should be a wake-up call for all universities whose sports are governed by the NCAA. Time to start thinking about creating another governing body, perhaps.
    I mind that the Indy 500 has had about six governing bodies since it started in 1911. Nothing says that the NCAA has to live forever.

  3. it’s never about punishing the guilty, it’s abut punishing whoever you can find who will sit still for it. Stupid bastards.

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