AND SO YOU HAVE IT

The verdict came down, and now the cost assessed and the price will be paid.

The Penn State football program is now faced with the hard reality of what happens when you don’t do the right thing. One of the greatest coaches in college football has suffered, even from the grave, and you may say that the football program is buried along with him.

$60 million dollars over five years to be paid out, the college will vacate the wins of the last 14 years or so by the NCAA of Joe Paterno wins, reducing his record accordingly and the college itself has removed his statue. JoPa is no longer a god.

The recruited players may go to another school to play and become eligible immediately or they can stay and maintain a academic standard and continue at Penn State. Justice has been served.

There will be weeping and wringing of hands, sobbing and protesting that all this is too harsh, yet I feel it is not harsh enough. Keeping the team from playing in any bowl game is fine for four or five years, but the program should not be aloud to continue period for that least that amount of time.

The $60 million assessment is what the school will lose in a year so that will really translate to $120 million, the $60 million they will pay off in 5 years and the $60 million they will lose as income for the year. Good for the NCAA.

Now maybe we will learn that people come first, and children are the first of the first.

That’s all I wrote, folks!