Penn State Will Receiver The Hammer Tomorrow

According to a report by CBS news.com the NCAA will levy unprecedented penalties against Penn State tomorrow morning.

“CBS News has learned that the NCAA will announce what a high-ranking association source called “unprecedented” penalties against both the Penn State University football team and the school.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” the source told correspondent Armen Keteyian.”

Also today, the Joe Paterno statue was removed.

“Penn State removed the statue of former coach Joe Paterno outside Beaver Stadium on Sunday in advance of NCAA sanctions that could cripple the football program for years.

The NCAA, a methodical and procedural organization not known for tipping its investigative hand, has scheduled a Monday morning news conference at which it stated it will levy “corrective and punitive measures” against the school in the wake of a child sex-abuse scandal that led to the conviction of former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.”

I’ve been rather quiet on the issue, but I’m torn. I think the NCAA has to level Penn State to discourage this type of  behavior from happening again, but I also think that the penalties should be a little bit in the future. The perpetrators of the cover-up deserve extreme punishment in my mind, but how much of that should carry over to the current students who attend Penn State? We’ll see what kind of unprecedented punishments Penn State receivers, but it appears as of right now that Penn State is going to get their football program demolished and will have potentially a long road to build it back up.