Anybody who closely followed the Sandusky affair knows that the Freeh Report and NCAA sanctions were a put-up job.
Sandusky was observed in the men´s shower in the football lockeroom with a juvenile on a Friday night in 1998 while Penn State was traveling for a road game. The campus security officer reported it to hi superior, who reported it to Centre County police. And investigation was intitiated by the DA, but no charges were ever filed. Why? How did Penn State do anything wrong? Why not investigate/sanction the DA´s office instead?
The penalties of no bowl appearances for 4 years, and reduced numbers of scholarships were more than sufficient. But why should Penn State forfeit losses from 1998 when Sandusky HAD ALREADY RETIRED and left the program in 1998? No logic there. Sandusky was not connected with Penn State football since 1998.
Why erase Paterno´s wins since 1998?
Why fine the University (and hence the PA taxpayers of this public university) by $60-million?
The investigation by Freeh had a pre-ordained conclusion, and never interviewed key witnesses of the 1998 event.
The NCAA grossly overstepped its bounds

Sorry. No amount of Monday morning whitewash makes Penn State, Sandusky or the abundant apologists look better in this disgusting case. Corbett should have left it all alone.

I agree with #2. NCAA did over step their authority.

Well said #2. All so true. I am very proud of our governor. He is absolutely doing the right thing. Shameful is a word that should apply to the NCAA.

Fire and prosecute the culprits. Don´t punish the student athletes. This is as stupid as telling South African athletes they couldn´t compete because of their government´s policies. Not to mention the silliness of The U.S. and Soviet governments barring their athletes from attending one another´s Olymic games.

I get really sick of the young people being the ones who bear the brunt of the punishment. This is personified by watching Pete Carroll skipping with glee on the Seahawks sideline while the USC players must bear being a team under sanctions.

The NCAA waived their rule that athletes who transfer to another Division 1 school have to sit out a year and not play football at their new school for that year. The athletes were free to transfer anywhere they wished and play immediately, so their sports careers didn´t suffer from the NCAA sanctions.

Without really knowing anything about the lawsuit I do know that the NCAA is full of little men who enjoy flaunting their power over collegiate athletics. All without any due process. It´s carried down to the high school level NCAA (IHSA) here in Illinois where they do the same, only more pathetically.

They should have put all those responsible in prison. It is unfair to punish the innocent kids who go to a bad school!

If Sandusky HAD AlREADY RETIRED (sorry about the caps) and left the program in 1998, why was he still being allowed in the men´s locker room to rape little boys?

From the beginning, this horrible story has been spun more times than a load of dirty laundry. The 28 year old adult who caught Sandusky raping the boy in ´02 was called a "young lad" who reported the crime to his father rather than the police.

On and on the story went, with people whitewashing the pervert and sacrificing impoverished, traumatized youth to preserve Penn State´s image. What are some nobodies compared to a mighty college football program, after all?

Gov. Corbett is an embarrassment to me as a Republican. Penn State can adapt to survive its penalties and emerge stronger from the experience. Instead, they complain their penalties are "unfair" and demonstrate they´re willing to learn nothing at all from this.

It´s absolutely just to punish the people responsible for this heinous crime to the maximum extent permitted by law.

But why are the kids playing football responsible? I think the governor is right to pursue this. And I have no connection with PSU whatsoever.

JimS....Dead men can defend themselves..the higher ups knew...the NCAA is made of people who´s own college schools gained games they didn´t win...

Saying goes: "Blame it on the dead man"

McClery didn´t stop it or report it..he called Daddy...and they conived to set Mr. Paterno up...he would get fired and McCleary would get the coaching job.