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Jerry Sandusky Scandal Essay

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The NCAA takes away scholarships, as well as fines, suspends, and punishes programs for their wrongdoings. Though it was Jerry Sandusky who did the child molesting, Penn St had to pay a fine of $60 million (Layden). The Jerry Sandusky scandal happened from 1998-2011. Jerry Sandusky was an assistant coach at the university of Pennsylvania state. The scandal was about how Jerry Sandusky molested multiple children, and used the Second mile program to find the children. In November 2011, Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged with ”years of sex crimes against young boys,”and also for, “inappropriately” touching children through the second mile program that Penn State had created for the football program (Layden). Also Joe Paterno and other staff …show more content…

Jerry Sandusky, famous for being a coach at Penn St. and molesting children was fired after the incident occurred. Sandusky and other staff members who knew about the molesting were fired, and/or sent to jail. Sandusky personally is going to spend the next 30 years or the rest of his life in jail. A second example of the sanctioning of coaches happened to the 1980’s SMU football program. SMU was a college who in the 1980’s was a dominant force in NCAA football. In 19877 a decision was made to cut the program off. Ron Meyer and the SMU mustangs were found out and sentenced to a 2 year elimination of the team. Ron Meyer and his coaching staff were fired for illegal recruiting techniques. In one case Eric Dickerson a running back out of Texas mysteriously decommitted from a top tier team and decided to go to SMU. Ron Meyer, the SMU coach who nabbed Eric Dickerson more than 25 years ago, would famously walk into high schools throughout Texas and pin his business card to the biggest bulletin board he could find. Stuck behind it would be a $100 bill (Layden). Though coaches and programs get the worst sanctions, the student athletes are normally held on a little looser …show more content…

This is a problem because of how the youth look up to sports heroes. In 2008, a player named Derek Rose, who played for the University of Memphis, decided to go into the draft after just one year on the Memphis team. Rose entered the draft as a freshman and went to the Chicago Bulls as a first round draft pick. After Rose was drafted by the Bulls, allegations that he had committed academic fraud began to fly about in newspapers and websites all around the country. Rose had cheated on his SAT, and he should have been punished or fined, they said. But it was too late for the NCAA to punish him. While a fine might hurt a typical college player, it would be chump change to a pro, who makes six or seven figure salaries each year. So, nothing happened. Derek Rose cheated and still succeeded. That set a terrible example for young athletes who looked up to Rose. Also, Memphis was illegally transporting Rose's younger brother to the Memphis basketball games even though it was against the NCAA's rules. This is a good example of how the NCAA has not given “full” punishments to their

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