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He is already gone. >> tia says, they got off easy. i was hoping that every program under the jurisdiction of the athletic director would be suspended for five years to show sports are not more important than children. >> uh-huh. >> interesting. >> another interesting bit of fallout. moody investor services says they may downgrade the schools rating which is going to hurt enrollment, fund-raising. ramifications well beyond the playing field. >> let me throw one point out there. i know the ramifi...

Light. i dont think this will change anything. >> were they too harsh on the players? >> i am out of my field. i dont follow football, but i think it is harsh against the players. i think it is definitely a punishment against the players who had nothing to do with this. they virtually destroyed the football program at penn state. i dont know what that does to all of the students who go to penn state and their sense of loyalty to the school and all of that. but at the same time, i have to say the...

Was sandusky. its going to be a domino effect on girls basketball and players who had nothing to do with. this. >> speaking about punishing the players, these kids now are able to go to play any place they want. current players on the roster and start at other schools. isnt that a mitt gating factor? >> i dont know how it works but a lot of them have the scouts and talent people looking at them like two or three years down the road, theyve probably been burning up the phone lines. we dont have t...

Records. >> reporter: the joe paterno legacy crumbling, his 900-pound bronze statue already gone and the ncaa punishing joe pa in the grave. snatching back 112 wins. everything since the sandusky scandal began. his last official victory now, 1997. the quarterback that day, mike mcqueary, the key witness, and adding to the sting of dropping from first in college football wins to 12th. >> we didnt cheat in football. they shouldnt take our wins away. >> reporter: the ncaa imposing a painfully unpre...

If you are that screwed up, nothing is going to do it. >> if you are going to be taught that is wrong, you are a lost cause. >> so should the ncaa have done anything? paterno is dead and sandusky is in jail and the president of the united states -- president of the university resigns. >> is that it? >> i am not qualified to weigh in on that. it is not a football issue. i dont even know -- i dont think it is any of their business. it is not a football issue. >> i want to point out, none of us are...

Because essentially joe paterno put the reputation of the institution ahead. >> bill: thats personal cowardice. its the same thing that happened in the church. they put -- paterno put his own reputation. he didnt want a scandal in his department. he didnt want that. thats why he didnt turn sandusky. in same thing with the three administrators at the school. >> what you said is absolutely true. catholic church. basically a situation where you dont want to you want to protect the institution and y...

>> bill: penn state gets hammered. its football program cut way back for at least four years in the wake of the sandusky child molestation scandal. but is the punishment enough? caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. hi, im bill oreilly, thanks forever watching us tonight. guns murder and the u.s.a. that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. far left idealogues are demagoguing the mass murder in colorado. they want gun control in the country...

Because essentially joe paterno put the reputation of the institution ahead. >> bill: thats personal cowardice. its the same thing that happened in the church. they put -- paterno put his own reputation. he didnt want a scandal in his department. he didnt want that. thats why he didnt turn sandusky. in same thing with the three administrators at the school. >> what you said is absolutely true. catholic church. basically a situation where you dont want to you want to protect the institution and y...

Its not the best thing to happen to football. its a tough -- but that sanction was directed at joe paterno. >> he could have and should have done more but he passed away and they took his statute. the bottom line is the players know who won. >> the unintended victim, sandusky, ohio. >> thats true. >> theyre going to change the name. >> i would. >> are you saying you think it was too harsh of a penalty? >> no. i dont think paterno could not have been left in the record books. if you play with fir...

Because essentially joe paterno put the reputation of the institution ahead. >> bill: thats personal cowardice. its the same thing that happened in the church. they put -- paterno put his own reputation. he didnt want a scandal in his department. he didnt want that. thats why he didnt turn sandusky. in same thing with the three administrators at the school. >> what you said is absolutely true. catholic church. basically a situation where you dont want to you want to protect the institution and y...