Recent content by Rlaub44

From what I had read on the husbands Facebook posts, the two had an argument of some sort. Some have extrapolated it was over her drinking, as he has shared that she has a drinking problem. Some of his posts and videos have been removed, so I am not sure I can find these statements again.

At a cost of over $8 million, let's hope it's complete.:groucho:

While this is correct, one could argue that the board tacitly accepted the report when Peetz stated at the press conference following the release of the report that the board "accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred." Or when they accepted the NCAA sanctions that were based...

I understand - I was asking what you thought about using the particular sanction of vacating victories. In the past, it has been what behavioral scientists refer to as a "logical consequence", because it follows logically that if you used unfair advantages to win a game, you should have that...

Being that vacating wins is typically used in situations where the violation affected competition (eligibility, recruiting, booster payments), what is your opinion of using that sanction in addressing what the NCAA thinks PSU should have done in 1998? In my earlier post about FSU, it is easy...

The NCAA is free to do whatever they choose - that much is obvious. My argument is just that vacating the wins from 98-01, while within the power of the NCAA, is in my opinion, illogical grandstanding and piling on with a sanction that, again in my opinion, doesn't fit the facts in the matter...

The reason I mentioned which capacity he was acting in at the time of the abuse was because we were discussing the NCAA vacating the football team's wins from 1998 onward, based on the University's response to the 1998 report. His actions, disgusting as they were, were not conducted as a...

It isn't so clear-cut. What happened was the subject of said DPW investigation, and the University officials had no independent knowledge of Sandusky's actions other than what Schultz was told by Harmon. LE and DPW were investigating jointly, and it is easy to understand that the administrators...

In line with the thread title, and in response to your post, my comments were regarding the incident providing sufficient reason for the NCAA sanctions, not regarding discipline by the University if appropriate. Please don't confuse the issues, as they are separate.

The use of ineligible players due to academic fraud is a clear example of an athletic program gaining a competitive advantage due to a traditional NCAA violation. I don't think the two cases are comparable, other than the fact that the violation wasn't committed by either coach.

No, Harmon indicated he made that decision to keep the file out of public record. The University Police, as you know, are a fully-functioning police department, and while they reported to Schultz during his tenure, there has never been a suggestion that he or any University administrator had...

The employee was also a faculty member in the Department of Physical Education, and at the time of the incident, he was not acting in either capacity, but as a representative of the Second Mile organization. Yes, Spanier should probably have alerted the board to the police report, but in...

You are correct, Reader, and the unfortunate truth is that by accepting the Freeh Report without rebuttal or correction, the Board accepted by default all of the things Freeh identified as failings, some which were inaccurate, IMO. That opened the door for the NCAA to use those accepted failings...

Pg 33-34 of this link covers what "reported offenses" must be counted under Clery, whether charged or not. http://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/handbook.pdf We may think what occurred was a sex offense, but the police report, under Incident/Offense, used the classification "Administrative...

Snipped for length: Thank you for taking the time to research this. Of the passages you provided, I feel that a few don't apply except in hindsight. For example, the Clery Act is to report crimes committed on campus, but as we all know, the DA determined in 1998 that no charges would be...