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No Vote Tonight —Lubrano

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Found the following from “lubrano” on the BWI/McAndrew Board:

BOT Meeting
No Vote this evening due to a technical legal issue. Please refer to Joel Myers email Friday to the BOT regarding this issue. However, the call will still be held and we will hear from Gene Marsh, PSU counsel to the NCAA; Rod Erickson regarding the Consent best place buy diazepam uk Decree; Steve Dunham, PSU recently hired General Counsel, regarding Dr. Erickson’s authority to sign the Consent Decree; Ken Frazier regarding the Freeh Report; Richard Edelman regarding Public Relations matters; and then the Trustees, in alphabetical order, can ask questions and/or make brief statements. I have no further information to share at this time.

Paterno family to appeal NCAA decree

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Wick Sollers, attorney for the Paterno family sent a letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert today stating that the Joseph V. Paterno estate intends to appeal the NCAA decree against Penn State. He continued, writing that the estate  “undertakes this appeal to redress the enormous damage done to Penn State, the State College community, former, current and future student and student athletes, Joe Paterno and certain other involved, as a result of the unprecedented actions taken by the NCAA.”

“This matter may be the most important disciplinary action in the history of the NCAA, and it has been handled in a fundamentally inappropriate and unprecedented manner.”

This is something we should have expected from the Paterno family, inasmuch as it has responded to every significant development in the Sandusky Scandal. The question in this Turkey’s mind is whether they have any standing at all to appeal anything as a non-signer to an agreement between Penn State and the NCAA. Is it possible that the Paterno family is sowing the seeds for an eventual civil lawsuit against the University and the NCAA? I have to wonder whether this is going anywhere.

Read the story by Anne Danahy of the Centre Daily Times.

Sudden Impact: Crime and Punishment (Updated)

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While this morning’s NCAA pronouncement implementing punishment and imposing additional bureaucracy upon Penn State athletics hit the mark for many Penn State haters, who use the Sandusky scandal to declare everything up to and including targeted nuclear weapons as fair game (sanctimoniously stating that even nukes won’t restore normal lives for the victims), many of us believe that the punishment was vindictive and draconian. And it still won’t restore normal lives for the victims.

I have selected two essays that engender the latter viewpoint, both published in Sports Illustrated’s SI.com. Fortunately, there are still some writers out there with the balls to contradict the common wisdom.

July 24 Update: added link to a great essay by Spencer Hall of SBNation.

The first, by Stewart Mandel, is entitled “NCAA’s Mark Emmert overstepped bounds in hammering Penn State.” Mandel feels that NCAA President Mark Emmert, enabled by the logic of the Penn State hater mentioned above, felt that he could justify going far beyond the pale to invent creative, crippling penalties for the Nittany Lions. Mandel sees this as high visibility hypocrisy, and his article is definitely worth a read.

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The other, by Michael Rosenberg, is “NCAA sanctions against Penn State reinforce overemphasis on winning.” Rosenberg thinks that by prescribing these sanctions “Emmert is not fighting against the hypocrisy of college sports. He is acknowledging it, legitimizing it, and — in a way — even embracing it.” Read it for more strongly worded pearls of Rosenberg wisdom.

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Spencer Hall of SBNation words his piece even more strongly. Here is a taste of “Penn State Scandal: NCAA Beats Up Corpse, Then Demands Your Applause.“

It makes sense for the NCAA to protect its product. It also makes sense of the coldest kind for Mark Emmert, head of the organization, to take a defenseless Penn State, prop it up on stage, and then take a few delighted whacks at its staggering corpse with the heaviest hammer imaginable. The key is not killing the victim, the Penn State football program. It will now be toured through every stage of the redemption cycle, and eventually brought forth as a model citizen at the appropriate date by a fully empowered oversight authority — one that can now, with the consent of its backers, make bigger, more immediate show trials of its thoroughly fixed bouts.

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Meanwhile, the Big Ten should have been flagged for piling on, for it was announced today that Penn State will not be allowed to share in the bowl revenues of other Big Ten teams for the duration of the NCAA postseason prohibitions.

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The very hot Kristi Dosh of ESPN says that the true costs of today’s NCAA sanctions, both monetary and abstract, are unknown.

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The Penn State Football Lettermen’s takes an angry stand.

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The Paterno family offers its response to the NCAA sanctions.

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Meanwhile, Former Penn State President Graham Spanier sent a letter to the board of trustees seeking to exonerate himself.

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Statements by Rodney Erickson, David Joyner, and Bill O’Brien.

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Consent decree between the NCAA and Penn State (PDF – 1.31 MB).

That’s a wrap for another issue of Sudden Impact. It’s been a long day today, but the longest, darkest days are yet to come.