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

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Football Programs, Universities, and Corporations are not just entities that exist in a vacuum. They are run by individuals that have the power to make policy, make decisions, and dictate to others how they are run.

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Right, I covered that in my post.

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The people in power of the Penn State Football Program (The Head Coach and AD) along with the people in power of the University (The President and VP) made a decision to not turn in a criminal for committing criminal acts on their campus in their facilities.

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Yep and they have been fired by the university, charged with crimes by law enforcement and will be defendants in criminal and/or civil courts. All the proper authorities and venues for dealing with what happened.

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USC is currently serving bowl and scholarship sanctions for activities that were committed by a coaching staff and AD that is no longer with the university. They are being punished for simply providing money to recruits to entice them to their university to play football.

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Yes, paying recruits has something to do with college athletics and is withing the purview of the NCAA's oversight.

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So, why should the NCAA only be able to punish programs that provide a few $ to recruits, punish schools for a player signing with an agent on his own, but not have the authority to punish a football program that aided and abetted a child rapist so that their football program would not suffer the consequences of this news being released?

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Because they are equipped to act as law enforcement and frankly aren't needed.

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But, you think the NCAA or Big Ten should not step in and punish the program that committed the worst crimes and scandal in the history of college football.

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Yep, because their are other authorities that have the power, authority and role to do that. It isn't the NCAA's.