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Originally Posted by 911pcars
Can you provide more details of your thinking?
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Gladly. Granted, the NCAA is not subject to the same standards as out criminal justice system. The NCAA and member schools can make their own agreements as to what authority exists to levy penalties.
However, my point was that we live in a country that was founded on the notion that individuals are held accountable for their actions, or inaction, in this case. That, unfortunately, is giving way to more emphasis on "the collective". So now, large groups are punished for the actions of a few to "make an example of them".
I guess punishing "Penn State" has more impact than punishing an AD, chancellor, University President, etc. However, the notion that punishment should be levied because crimes were committed to benefit the program is a twisted one, when many in the program had no idea that it was being done on their behalf.
For example, if some crazed lunatic assassinates a candidate for office because he wants another candidate to win an election, this does not make the other candidate responsible for the crime and warrants no punishment other than for the lunatic that acted as an individual.