The NCAA should flush Penn State down the toilet...

The Freeh Report on the Penn State scandal damages Joe Paterno and guts him like a filleted trout. The damage is irreparable. Contrary to popular rabid PSU fan and Paterno family belief in Happy Valley, the greedy JoePa (he was negotiating a contract boost while knowing Sandusky’s crimes were public knowledge) was in on all the conversations about what to do with Sandusky the child raper. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance going on there in that town and across the country with diehard Nittany Lion fans. JoePa knew full well what was going on in football shower rooms and in Sandusky’s basement with those poor kids. His pristine image and legacy are tainted with this scandal. The school is going to take it in the nuts from the families of those boys. They are owed big money for what their sons had to endure from that slimy bucket of puke.

The football program needs a huge slap down, too. The Big 10 and/or the NCAA must weigh in on this gross lack of institutional control and blatant, deliberate cover-up of Sandusky’s crimes. Heavy penalties should be meted out: 5 years of not playing in the Little 12’s championship game followed by a 5-year bowl ban, loss of 30+ scholarships over 3 or 4 years, 10 years probation, 2 years off TV, etc. And that comes after the entire program being closed down for the 2013 season. The players on that roster can be told they can leave to go to another D-I school without losing a year of playing time. Football then resumes in 2014 in Unhappy Valley. The Nit Lion fans can blame the disintegration of their program on JoePa, the school prez, the A.D. who was JoePa’s lap puppy and coffee server, and the other vice-president who covered up the scandal with them. For added measure to blast Paterno, the football program should have to forfeit every one of JoePa’s wins after the 1999 season. The Tressel tattoo and memorabilia for sale scandal at Ohio State pales in overall comparison and magnitude to the decade of shameful criminal behavior going on at Penn State…in the locker room, Sandusky’s basement and in the school president’s and athletic director’s offices. Penn State must pay for its moral bankruptcy.