There have been many controversies at the university of Penn State recently with the football program. This being said, Penn State still deserves the bowl game that they will get this season. Any team with six wins in a season is bowl eligible. Penn State has nine so they will get a call following the season.
With all these issues, Penn State was able to beat Ohio State on the road in a hostile environment. For some reason, Tim Keown says that Penn State should deny this bowl game that the team has worked extremely hard to get. Yes, Penn State isn’t the best place to be in the world but let me remind him and others that Jerry Sandusky hasn’t been on the Penn State coaching staff since 1999. So let me ask why a man who hasn’t been part of a College program should cause a 2011 Penn State football team to suffer.
It’s so horrible that the media made everything out to be Joe Paterno’s fault when what he knew or could’ve done is so vague. He reported the abuse to a supervisor of campus police who decided to cover it all up, and the board at Penn State decided to do the same thing.
This forced out the greatest coach in sports history. Paterno, at 84 was in the last year of his contract but he was and will continue to be Penn State football. This Penn State team plays from how he coached, and I am rooting for Penn State to win out, and get their fair shot at the Rose Bowl and to even have them win the game.
Tim Keown went on to credit the University of Miami for publically stating that they will not accept any bowl game that they would receive this year due to NCAA violations that took place after a booster gave players illegal benefits. A Miami Hurricane booster was part of a $900 Million Ponzi scheme he played to get recruits. Nevin Shapiro violated NCAA rules by paying players for their commitments to the university for athletics and for getting them prostitutes and throwing parties at his million dollar homes and even on his yachts.
Yes, I can agree with him that the situation at Penn State is much worse but in all reality Miami cheated, Penn State did not. Jerry Sandusky should, and will pay for what he has done but why should a program that hasn't had this man on their staff since 1999 pay for what he did? It’s a personal crime, not a university crime.
Penn State deserves to play out the season and the ones to come without any recruiting violations or sanctions.
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