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Its not that simple.

First off, there needs to be a clear message sent to all institutions that this kind of shit is not going to go unpunished. Yeah, it may be a bit unfair to punish EVERYONE at PSU, but sometimes its just part of the equation. The fact is, the most powerful people at the university (and who knows to what extent how many others knew) knowingly looked the other way to enable a man to rape kids on their campus. I mean, think about it for a second. Curley and Spainer obviously knew about the guy being a pedophile from their emails. Paterno obviously knew as well.

When the FBI gets done with their investigation, its going to look pretty bad. This is why an institution getting out of control big is a horrible thing. Nobody dared to try and damage JoePa's baby, so nothing was ever done. I mean, we have no idea how many times Sandusky even did this shit on the campus, but I bet a lot of times to a lot of different people. Truly sick.

A harsh penalty needs to be sent. It also needs to be clear that you will be PROTECTED if you are willing to come forth with allegations like these. Truly pitiful that this all happened.

Nah, PSU is an institution made up of hundreds of thousands. Those sick bastards were wrong but there are plenty of great PSU alumni.

Yeah the "only a few did this" argument simply does not fly.

This is child rape. There is absolutely no excuse for it to be knowingly ignored, and absolutely no way it can go unpunished. I don't know about kicking them out of the Big Ten, but their football program should not get to play for a year.

Big Ten is an academic organization as well as an athletics group. PSU has been a fantastic research institution throughout its membership.

If you want to ban PSU from football for a couple years, then that makes sense. It's a serious crime that should have serious consequences. But kicking the university out of the B1G, would essentially cripple the school from an academic standpoint - that is overkill.

Modern day conferences are nothing but organizations formed to maximize athletic revenue. The argument that they are academic associations is as sincere as calling football players "student athletes."

Please tell me you don't think the recent conference realignments have ANYTHING to do with academics.

PSU gained entry to the B10 because they had achieved national prominence in football and could bring revenue to the table. Their academic qualifications were secondary.

Your sanctimonious attitude is so eloquent.

The tragedy at Penn State doesn't reflect bad feelings towards the B10. The University has and will continue to pay for the lack of action and leadership. People died, lives were ruined and the name was tarnished. Why keep kicking a dead horse?

They should get the death penalty. Imagine if one of those boys raped was one of your son.

Having to do with a child molester, then yes. I can fucking guarantee, I would be done with this university.

I hope you are kidding. They didn't act definitively when they knew about the allegations...they did nothing (FOR 10 YEARS AT LEAST) to prevent Sandusky from continuing to use his PSU access to the program and buildings to facilitate the rape of young boys...they only acted once the rest of us found out about the ass-raping of kids.

Keep in mind that while Sandusky hadn't been employed by PSU since 1998, when this story broke about a year ago, he still had keys to the PSU football building, and had been seen taking a young boy into the building a week or two before the story went public.

How many kids were raped AFTER PSU and Paterno decided to cover this up?

Seriously. Trying to kick someone out of the B1G for criminal actions by a few bureaucrats is like revoking someone's gym membership for cheating on his taxes. They just have absolutely nothing in common.