[caption id="attachment_2200" align="alignleft" width="300"] NCAA president Mark Emmert's punishments for Penn State Monday may have been stringent, but the severity of the crimes the school knew of but did nothing to stop absolutely merited them. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)[/caption]
The NCAA handed down its sentence against Pennsylvania State University Monday. It's just about the most severe sentence possible short of actually suspending the football program.
$60 million in fines, most of which will go to causes that help victims of child abuse. A four-year ban from postseason play. Forty fewer scholarships over the next four years.
And every win the Nittany Lions recorded between 1998 and 2011. All because of Penn State's complicity regarding Jerry Sandusky's pedophilia.
Is it a harsh sentence? Yes.
Does it punish some people — former players, most notably — who honestly had no knowledge this was going on? Yes....
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