• A $60 million fine, equal to one year’s revenue for the Penn State football program
• 40 scholarship losses, 10 a year for each of the next four years
• A four-year ban on Bowl Games 
• A five-year probation

*All wins vacated from 1998-2011, including 111 of Joe Paterno’s career victories
*All players can transfer and be immediately eligible

“This case involves tragic and tragically unnecessary circumstances. One of the grave dangers stemming from our love of sports is that the sports themselves become too big to fail, indeed, too big to even challenge.”
“The result can be an erosion of academic values that are replaced by the value of hero worship and winning at all costs. All involved in intercollegiate athletics must be watchful that programs and individuals do not overwhelm the values of higher education.
In the Penn State case, the results were perverse and unconscionable.”
– NCAA president Mark Emmert

I don’t know that much about punitive punishment in collegiate sports, but weighed against dozens of little boys being sexually molested, raped and abused, while facilitated by the silence of school administration and leadership, under the guise of protecting the football program, this NCAA “punishment” appears weak to me.  VERY WEAK.
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