Maybe the Death penalty isn’t what Penn State deserves.

Michael Rosenberg makes a case in Sports Illustrated for Penn State not getting the death penalty over the child sex scandal on their campus. The first piece to his argument is that that the entire scandal was in the hands of a very few people.

Like SMU’s wasn’t?

At least the Pony’s didn’t rape anybody. No, what the did was show very poor institutional judgment in allowing Bobby Cox and his band of thugs to run a football program on a college campus with illegal players. All that happened at Penn State was Joe Pa allowed a sex scandal to go on for over a decade and turned his back along with the back of the institution away from his top assistant coach while he defiled young men time and time and time again. Yes Joe pa helped turn the attention of the administration away from the problem and told them it was no big deal. Look away, look away. Oh yeah, and give me a bigger contract. Look away.

I don’t know, but I’d rather see a few inner city kids paid to play a bit of football for the U than I would seeing the same U condone and allow child rape to happen continually on the campus for a decade.

Give Penn State the death penalty and do it now.  If the NCAA drags its feet on this it should be ashamed.

Or…

Let Penn State play football and every penny, every nickel every dollar the program takes in for the next thirty years goes to the victims and their families. Every last cent. And let them be audited ever year by the NCAA and if they are caught cheating, shut the whole damn school down, not just the athletic department.

If Americans aren’t morally outraged over this, then God save America. We turned our backs on the Catholic Church and their little sexual escapades with choir boys and alter boys and said, well, hell they are just priests.  The Pope paid a bunch of folks off and it was over. Let us pray…and please tithe we need the cash.

But Joe Pa and his gang…now that is true religion…and it went sour. Now that institution should pay and pay big.

Every cent made from football for the next 30 years goes to a trust fund for victims of sexual abuse and child sexual crimes. After thirty years, Penn State can be allowed to make a profit, if anyone cares by then. Its glory will be gone, along with its programs. And this way, we didn’t have to have the death penalty – just a huge tax for an institution harboring evil within its walls.

Rosenberg goes on to say that if we allow the NCAA to give Penn State the DP, then anytime an athlete fails a drug test and the coach looks away and that athlete kills someone in a car under the influence, they should step in. (Hey, if the U knows about it and does nothing about it, I agree with that. So, Michael, why have a governing body looking out for people who play the sports, if the governing body isn't going to stand up to rogue institutions like SMU was and Penn Sate was? What's good for the goose is also good for the gander.)

Penn State you are on paid probation for 30 years. Clock starts now.