LastPommerFan

:angry: I love the rest ;)

If there is any sanction to competition at all, even a 1 year bowl ban, all players will be release from their commitment and can transfer anywhere they want with no penalty. This most recently occurred in football at USC, and several players chose to transfer.

No doubt they there are still violations, but schools are much more likely now to self report. Several schools (Kentucky, Baylor, etc) have had their penalties reduced because the ncaa deemed that they administrations took "swift action as soon as the violations came to light." That is the paradigm I would look to instill with the Death Penalty here. Bad stuff will happen, as soon as you become aware, you need to do the right thing.

Of course I don't expect anyone currently involved in a conspiracy to cover up a crime to come forward! I expect that the next time an AD is confronted with the question of whether to report an issue he is made aware of or conceal it, he will recognize that reporting will be better for his program than concealing. The SMU death penalty case had this exact effect with regards to recruiting violations. Programs are much more likely to self report recruiting violations they uncover than they were 25 years ago.

Absolutely, Remember when our owners committed felonies and we got the reward of bankruptcy, a couple lost seasons, and nearly a decade of an owner more interested in Franklin's than Stanley's? Any player holding a scholarship at PSU is likely talented enough to find a place at another school. And if they don't, they still would be able to get their education at Penn St. For me, the Death Penalty is not really about the victims nor justice in this crime. No more than punishing a school for violations committed by coaches and players who have already moved on (OSU, USC, etc.). It is about telling every University Prez and AD in the country that if you use your program to conceal a heinous crime like this, your program will receive the harshest penalty we can implement. Everyone that the NCAA deems involved in the cover-up should receive a "show cause" penalty (basically a black listing for any NCAA job) and PSU as an institution should be used as a teaching moment for all the other power players in the sport. In my mind, it is the only way to send a message that will stick with the other big time football boards, admins, and programs. I'd like to see 2 seasons with no psu football, I'd be ok with 2 years with no new scholarships, a 3 year tv ban (including a forfeiture of all shared B10 $), and a 4 year bowl ban. And SMU as a university wasn't really significantly harmed when they got the Death Penalty. So all this would really be about is football and money. Which seems ridiculously trivial in comparison.

It will send the right message to all the other football programs. The athletes at psu will all get picked up by other schools. The football program is the sole reason these people did what they did.

Link?

in that case, I recant. Maybe this is the "well" tpegs was talking about. I suppose he mostly meant he would never say no to spending money. He didn't say he would always say no to making it.

lol I'm sure he's counting on the .50 left over from the hundred bucks once the plaque is made and the mason is paid to install it.

Who said it was for charity?

Me neither, although that does make me kind of sad.

If miller or Enroth go down for the season, do you consider signing him?

If this happened, it explains why there are no SC banners in FNC.

One is the Greatest Goalie Ever, the other will be the first Sabres player to ever touch the Stanley Cup. I think it's a good list. ;)

I would add: Immediately: Darling, Knox, and Hasek. Down the road: RJ, Pominville, and whoever the coach is when we win the cup. Although I'd be willing to Drop Darling, RJ, and Knox if we wanted to keep it just about the actual team on the ice/bench, not the organization as a whole.

Totally agree with everything here, except the bolded. Where are you supposed to discuss politics if not in public? isn't that the whole point? I get not being loud in a restaurant, but surely the volume and vulgarity are the problem, not that they were discussing politics.

Blue-Gold game/concert combo?

Doan and i think darcy includes the secondary trade market as part of FA. Because he doesn't need to clear waivers.

With or without pineapple? My definition of elite is top 15 winger/defense-man, top 10 center, top 5 goalie/coach/GM over a stretch of at least 3 years.

150 days on the market...still no offers on my house... I love teaching my summer interns. Great chance to challenge a prospective hire, teach them your way of doing things, and learn a great deal more about their abilities than you ever would in an interview. Plus, it's a chance to sell them on you, and in engineering, selling your company to new talent is just as important as identifying the talent in the first place. Plus, they are dumb and gullible, which has hilarious results if you are creative about it.

My gut instinct is that, if there are no more moves made, that would be the nail in both coffins. If DR brings in one of the big names in Trade or Doan, that would only be the nail in LR's coffin.

Top 3 in NE 283 Top 3 in SE 270

See I think that paragraph comes back from conspiracy to skepticism. That's where I'm at, I'm a hopeful skeptic. I want him to make it work, and I think he can, but I'm not 100% sure he can. There are other skeptics you can see a good move, appreciate it for what it is, but still don't think he has enough GM talent to make a winner. Those positions, in my opinion, are the ones worth staking out. But again, I have to reiterate that I actually do appreciate that you make me question what I am seeing. I'm not exactly sure what made me react to it this morning?

Rip gets good reviews... ;)