Comments on: Penn State: do the sanctions punish the innocent?

By: Hypocrites of the Year: The NCAA | Ethics Alarms

Hypocrites of the Year: The NCAA | Ethics Alarms — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:44:43 +0000

[...] wealthy citizens who opposed the profligate spending in the first place. As Ethics Bob writes in his post about the Penn State [...]

By: Ethics Bob

Ethics Bob — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:34:21 +0000

Well, they nominally punish the institution, and when an institution is punished all kinds of people suffer. My larger point is that these students are getting a life lesson–that football isn’t more important than the university.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:08:17 +0000

I can’t argue with your point that the innocent will always suffer. Still, these sanctions–apart from being outside the NCAA’s legitimate purview and the fact that they violated their own due process guidelines–punish primarily the innocent: Sandusky, Paterno and Spanier, meanwhile, aren’t affected at all.