NCAA Boss Won't Rule Out Death Penalty on Penn State

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NEW YORK (AP) — The president of the NCAA says he isn't ruling out the possibility of shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

In a PBS interview Monday night, NCAA President Mark Emmert said he doesn't want to "take anything off the table" if the NCAA determines penalties against Penn State are warranted.

Emmert said he's "never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university." He added, "What the appropriate penalties are, if there are determinations of violations, we'll have to decide."

The last time the NCAA shut down a football program with the so-called "death penalty" was in the 1980s, when SMU was forced to drop the sport because of extra benefits violations.
 

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this stuff just keeps getting worse and worse and is a huge blackeye for ncaa football. something needs to be done, but shutting down the whole football program is going to be hard to decide on. i dont think theyll go that far
 

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They've gotten rid of all of the higher ups who were covering it up, the NCAA doesn't need to anything.
 

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It's the school's fault for hiring those higher ups in the first place lol
 

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Don't punish the all the young adults and teenagers who had absolutely nothing to do with what happened.
 

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