Penn St fined $60M, wins vacated from '98-11

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Penn St fined $60M, wins vacated from '98-11

The NCAA slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties Monday, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

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ArkansasYankee - 7/23/2012 6:07 PM

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I guess I would have to agree; they should have recieved the death penalty. And as someone told me today; too bad Joe Pa didn't live to see this happen to his statue, his victories, and his reputation.

1gmama - 7/23/2012 4:04 PM

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so sad for all he football player that have worked hard since 1998 they are getting screwed too.

golfdude2 - 7/23/2012 3:47 PM

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WOW - that is huge! I think schools only get 25 full scholorships total, not much left, won't be too much focus on football up there now.

itsjustme - 7/23/2012 2:09 PM

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$60M fine will eat up a lot of the University's pocket book as well as it will hurt recruits, enrollment and the entire community. Penn State will be in the hole for over a decade trying to get over this. They dont have a coach worth mentioning, cant go to a bowl game for 4 years, lost a ton of scholarships and have to foot a $60M fine. Student athletes will avoid Penn State like the plague. Oh well, sucks to be them.

ender929 - 7/23/2012 11:41 AM

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Just my 2 cents, but it sounds like they still put football ahead of all other considerations. They still enjoyed and profited from all of those past victories, while the defeated teams did not. I think if ever there was just cause for the "death penalty", this was it. How can they ever use it now that they've decided that this crime wasn't worthy of it? It still sounds like all of those children weren't as important as big college football. Just my opinion.

itsjustme - 7/23/2012 11:03 AM

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I bet Petrino is glad this happened, takes the spotlight of off him. LOL. The NCAA did what it should have done. Penn State is what it is, State Penn.

ArkansasYankee - 7/23/2012 10:10 AM

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The statue is gone, some of his victory's are gone; now they need to remove the child abuse enabler's name from the library. Joe Pa, you are not the "god" Penn State alumni, students, and faculty think you are. And you just might be in trouble with the one true God for allowing Sandusky to continue his disgusting behavior.