And Penn State says that they are so underfunded by the state.
And yet they are still lining up to get in and to play on the teams.
The interesting question to me with regard to Penn State is what is the appropriate penalty for the next school that is caught covering up a crime like this? In the scheme of things Penn State got off pretty lightly. It seems to me, that encourages schools to not come forward. They can afford to take a chance. If they happen to get caught, the penalty will really not be that bad.
Do all state schools have such an interwoven directorate with state government> E.g. the governor is ex officio a member of the Board of trustees.
Many states have an elected board of regents or trustees, so they are political positions. The school relies on the state budget and therefore cares if the governor is happy.
@TomSrOfBoston Yes (in some states), which is why the State Flagship is King (and it causes no end of pain for the directional schools).
An interesting exception is California, where many of the state politicians didn’t attend one of the UC’s (the UC’s did a study on this awhile back). Luckily, the politician staffs are dominated by UC grads, so that’s who the UC’s tend to work through…
The governor of Connecticut is an ex officio member of the governing board at Yale, too. That doesn’t mean he or she ever shows up for meetings.
The Penn State board is actually comparatively free of political influence, although the politics in the races for the seats elected by alumni have been fierce in recent years. But when the Penn State board had its meeting at which it fired Joe Paterno, one of the things that happened is that Governor Corbett actually came to the meeting and demanded that they do that. He had been Attorney General investigating the Sandusky case for years (and, many thought, slowing the process so that the eventual indictment wouldn’t interfere with his gubernatorial campaign, although a subsequent independent investigation said that didn’t happen). He was apparently personally disgusted by what the Penn State administration had done, top to bottom, and he used his position on the Board to demand that heads roll.
A child, in 1976, may have told Paterno he was being molested by Sandusky.
This is one line, in a report by a insurance company trying to deny a claim. Which is not at all to say it is impossible, but only to point out that it has as much chance of being false, as true, at this point.
Sandusky Case Bombshell: Did 6 Penn State Coaches Witness Abuse?
http://counton2.com/2016/05/07/sandusky-case-bombshell-did-6-penn-state-coaches-witness-abuse/
The Knight Commission publishes reports about college sports profitability and accountability. The PS athletic program is one of the few programs that turns a profit and receives no subsidies from their institution. USA Today has done a good job of digging into the various Knight Commission reports and summarizing the information.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/
From The Knight Commission website
http://spendingdatabase.knightcommission.org/fbs/big-ten/pennsylvania-state-university
Apparently Penn State compensated the boy who made the claim from the '70s.
Amazing how the Penn State Alumni Association and the alumni members on the Board of Trustees are obsessed with resurrecting the reputation of Joe Paterno. Access to Penn State for lower income students is a non-issue.
The letter is funny: It treats the information as though it came out in a press report. Where it came out was in the opinion of a judge denying Penn State’s motion for summary judgment without trial that it is entitled to insurance coverage for all of its Sandusky settlement costs. Penn State is right that these allegations have never been proved in court, but that’s because it has settled with the claimants and the insurance case hasn’t gone to trial yet (and perhaps never will – Penn State can’t be happy about weeks and weeks of testimony about stuff like this).
Penn State isn’t happy about losing $60,000,000 in insurance claims either. Maybe it’s time to rename Happy Valley.