No death penalty for Penn State?

Come now, you cannot have a stronger case of a lack of institutional control, than what the Freeh Report outlined.

Everyone's talking about these penalties being "unprecedented", but that might have more to do with HOW the penalties were assessed and not its severity.  Rather than go through the COI, apparently the NCAA granted president Mark Emmert the ability to bypass the ordinary process and hand down sanctions directly and immediately.

If you want to talk unprecedented penalties, look no further than USC.  No one in the history of the NCAA received sanctions as harsh as USC did, for what amounted to unexceptional violations (in light of what happened at Ohio State, North Carolina and Miami.)  With everything that was alleged to have occurred at USC (three players: a tennis player making long-distance phone calls for free; OJ Mayo getting paid by a would-be agent; Reggie Bush getting paid by a would-be agent), the protection and cover-up of a prolific child molester at Penn State, by far, is exceptionally egregious.

Well, we'll see Monday morning, at 6:00 am PDT when the NCAA officially announces what's coming down.  If the death penalty is off the table, I just don't see the sanctions themselves as being "unprecedented".

-- via ESPN