Sometimes People Make You Sick

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From AP:

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over stiff sanctions imposed against Penn State University in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.
The Republican governor scheduled a Wednesday news conference on the Penn State campus in State College to announce the filing in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg.
A person associated with the university and knowledgeable about the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the lawsuit had not been filed, told The Associated Press that it is an antitrust action.
The NCAA sanctions, which were agreed to by the university in July, included a $60 million fine that would be used nationally to finance child abuse prevention grants. The sanctions also included a four-year bowl game ban for the university's marquee football program, reduced football scholarships and the forfeiture of 112 wins but didn't include a suspension of the football program, the so-called death penalty.
The governor's office announced the news conference late Tuesday afternoon. His spokesman did not respond to repeated calls and emails seeking to confirm a Sports Illustrated story that cited anonymous sources saying a lawsuit was imminent.

Worse, I did the thing you should never do: read the comments.

Guh. Saw someone bitching that the NCAA should be sued over this because "this is all about political correctness".

Dude!  You know you're ideological bent has gone off a freaking cliff when you call child rape, and systemically covering up CHILD RAPE something as innocuous as "politically correctness."   This is not about political correctness.  This about multiple criminal felonies and a freaking abomination!

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

I can't imagine this lawsuit is going to get very far. It sucks for the employees and students at Penn State who had nothing to do with it - but that's the way life goes sometimes. People around do bad things and everyone has to pay. This was not a case of one man committing crimes, this was a case of everyone who was made aware of the problem ignoring it and hoping it would go away. It was a system-wide problem and must have a system-wide consequence.

[liliaeth]

I agree with you, but well... I also feel sorry for the students who lost out on a chance at going to college because of the reduced number of football scholarships.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Oh God, that's disgusting.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

FYI .