BOL Round Table

Yeah many places all day today have said the other penalty was No football for 4 years and that is why Penn State agreed to these sanctions so quickly. I guess anyone would.

If you read the Freeh report in its entirety; the only thing that may have prevented shutdown of the Football Program would be the economic impact of the community and the sympathy for students, fans, and alumni as well as the positive academic credentials of the school.
Institutions such as Penn State have a lot of accountability; and the facts are pretty unfathomable; This situation is the equivolent to Alabama of Nick Saban, Dr. Witt, Mal Moore, etc. not only harboring a known child predator but supporting him by giving him access and other means to continue criminal behavior.
Any business, organization, and especially an institution of higher learning has to take some sort of accountability, and ultimately keeping the integrity of the football program as the report describes was the primary motivation. At the end of the day, the report shows the flaws in the Penn State System and calls for a restructuring to prevent something this awful ever happening again. I don't think the NCAA's sanctions are only a penalty, but also a "time out" because changes need to be made at that Institution although it creates collateral damage unfair to thousands of people. I hope institutions use this example to evaluate their current structures and take positive and preventative measures.

They could have suspended the football program indefinitely until changes are made.

in 5 years they will realize they cant get those last 4 tears of their life back.