amazing he s been able to ri crute top level talent amidst the ncaa sanctions and this season bowl ban. only 74 players on scholarship this season. depth is a real problem. the players they have starting and they re still a very young team. these are very good players. we talk about the ohio states and the floridas and the texass, these big programs, a lot of nfl talent, usc has guys that will play on sundays we don t know their names yet. what do you think about from a football point of view penn state, what happens? we know about the off thefield stuff, we covered it here for months. what happens to that program for the next decade? i think everybody here is four year postseason bowl ban and they will lose 40 scholarships and people hear four year postseason ban, this really takes seven, eight, nine years before they recover. you want to spin it forward to this year, the last time i checked they had nine players
people close to the ncaa said only about five people in mark emmert s inner circle really knew exactly what was going to come down this morning. i think that s worth keeping in mind. just for people who are going to hear terms about devastating and crippling, two years ago, usc got hit with you know, devastating sanctions. two-year postseason bowl ban, going to lose. the number one ranked team you re talking about? yeah. what s worth noting there is us c-appealed the sanctions and what that was able to do was, it let the new coach lane kiffin basically brace for the scholarship hits and back load his roster. if penn state doesn t appeal, that means the sanctions kick in right away. and then all of a sudden, you re in this kind of scramble mode. if there s multiple postseason bowl ban, as much as three years which some speculate it could be three, four years, that makes it really hard to recruit because those kids will not want to come
an internal report found that top university officials including coach paterno were involved in covering up sex abuse allegations against former defensive coach jerry sandusky for a decade. the ncaa says the punishment will be, quote, corrective and punitive. a source who spoke with the new york times says it would include a stiff financial penalty, a number of lost scholarships, a postseason bowl ban, and the freedom for penn state football players to transfer to other schools. also the paterno family was not happy about the statute coming down, saying in a statement tearing down the statute of joe paterno does not serve the victims of jerry sandusky s horrible crimes or help heal the penn state community. no word on what will happen to the statute which the university says is now in a secure location. wes i saw you shaking your head. where do you want to start with this? joe paterno s name is still going to be on the library. yeah. of penn state as an honor of
is this worse than the death penalty or not? well, keep in mind after smu got the death penalty for the next 20 years, they didn t even win 20% of tear games. we ll see how this is going to this has got to be close. i really think the ncaa just crushed penn state football. that s what i kept coming back to because the four-year postseason bowl ban basically means no blue chip recruit is really going to want to go there because your entire career, you re not going to be able to compete for anything beyond just the regular season. the other thing is, and this is kind of underneath all the things you just said. penn state s entire roster now is recruitable to anybody in major college football. right now. those kids can transfer without penalty. not only are there commitments, the 13 exitments and a lot of kids were very sought after already buying into the new regime, those kids will get swarmed on. also, the timing of this
penn state in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal. yesterday morning before dawn, construction crews under the orders of penn state s president, began removing the iconic statute of coach joe paterno who died six months ago. until a report found that top university officials including coach paterno were involved in covering up sex abuse allegations against former defensive coach jerry sandusky for a decade. the ncaa says the punishment will be corrective and punitive. a source who spoke with the new york times says it would include a stiff financial penalty, a number of lost scholarships, a postseason bowl ban, and the freedom for penn state football players to transfer to other schools. also, the paterno family was not happy about the statute coming down, saying in a statement, tearing down the statute of joe paterno does not serve the victims of jerry sandusky s horrible crimes or help heal the