re: If Penn State Scandal occurred in the SEC , would we support a ban?

Before today, I wanted to believe these people just didn't realize the magnitude of their failure to act. After this report, I'm ready to throw the book at PSU.

The Freeh report makes it pretty clear that there was no institutional control. Compliance was decentralized and understaffed. There were repeated instances of child rape inside the football complex, where the AD and head coach (and McQuery, but he had a lot less power) knew there was a pedophile. They knew this about him, and still allowed him to bring children around, and even travel to games. They never even attempted to find out who the boy was in the 2001 incident. There is no defense or justification for this. The NCAA can, and IMO should, nail them to the wall for lack of institutional control, dishonesty and whatever else they can come up with.

The sad thing is, in 1998 the DA declined to prosecute. And in 2001, if they had just gone to the authorities and done the right thing then, the fallout would have been over in a few weeks. They could have taken the high road, said this has occurred, and here's how we've addressed it, in accordance with our values. Instead they just covered it up. And kids lives were destroyed.