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These are quotes assembled by Joel Myers.
Many people have asked where is the truth about the alleged threat made to Penn State
President Rod Erickson by the NCAA over the “death penalty.” It seems clear from
published information that the NCAA threatened Penn State President Rod Erickson with the
“death penalty,” at least up until July 20, 2012.
The published reports, presented below, suggest that if they decided then not to impose the
death penalty, it seems they did so secretly and did not advise Penn State that the death
penalty, previously threatened, was off of the table when the Consent Decree was offered.
But even that NCAA “story” seems in doubt in reading the quote and reports below.
Ed Ray, Oregon State President, is widely quoted as indicating that the death penalty was
never considered, yet his actual words indicate two votes were taken on the death penalty,
one in the Executive Committee and one in the Division I Board. This means they did
seriously consider it – why else would a vote be taken. Further Emmert is clear the vote Ray
referred to was because, in the Division I Board, they “had coalesced around a decision:
Shut down Penn State's football program for four years.”
Additionally Mark Emmert, NCAA President, is quoted as saying that Penn State’s willingness
to accept the penalties without due process was what saved Penn State from the death
penalty.
This is an outrageous statement that suggests if Penn State wanted due process, it would
be summarily executed.
It seems it was a game of threat, coercion, and deceit by the NCAA’s in dealing with Penn
State and in comments afterward.
Quotes by Ed Ray (the quotes below come from the Oregon State Beavers: A Q&A with Dr.
Ed Ray, OSU president, on the NCAA's ruling on Penn State. Published: Monday, July 23, 2012, 5:16 PM Updated: Monday, July 23, 2012, 5:34 PM By John Hunt, The Oregonian.)
“I think it culminated with the Freeh Report that was commissioned and accepted
without exception by the university. It was the release of that report and the
acceptance of the findings by the university itself and the concurrence with the NCAA
that led us to move forward with deliberations over whether or not it would be
appropriate to create a set of punitive and corrective actions by the NCAA to be
imposed on Penn State University – hopefully in a consent decree, where the
university accepts proposed actions we put forward, and that’s what happened.
As part of that, we talked about whether suspension of play ought to be one of the
actions that we would call for.
… But the overwhelming vote – we took a vote – in both the executive committee
and the Division I board was not to include a suspension of play or death penalty,
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and then we quickly moved to the menu of actions that you heard about today, and
we voted unanimously to support that package. At no time did we ever have a
discussion about, “If they don’t do this, we’re going to do that.’’ That is a
conversation that never occurred.
I think most universities do operate with great integrity, do have wonderful
community and institutional values that they adhere to. So these are corrective
actions for a university that lost on its values and its culture, and we’ve proposed very specific corrective actions for Penn State.”
Quotes by Dr. Mark Emmert:
According to a story written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Don Van Natta Jr., Emmert
called Erickson July 17 and "told him the majority of the NCAA's Division I board of directors
- - 18 university presidents - had coalesced around a decision: Shut down Penn State's
football program for four years."
Gene Marsh, a former chairman of the NCAA's infractions committee who defended former
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, had been hired by Penn State to help negotiate sanctions in
the wake of the scandal. According to Van Natta, Marsh received a call July 17 from Donald
Remy, the NCAA's general counsel. Remy told Marsh that Penn State was facing a death
penalty for multiple seasons. Inside the negotiations that brought Penn State football to the
brink of extinction.
Updated: August 4, 2012, 4:37 PM ET By Don Van Natta Jr. | ESPN The Magazine
On July 17 Emmert was interviewed on PBS and said the following:
“What the appropriate penalties are if there are determinations of violations we will
have to decide and we will hold in abeyance all those decisions until we have actually
decided what we want to do with actual charges should there be any. I don’t want to
take anything off the table. The fact is this is completely different than an
impermissible benefit scandal at SMU or anything else we have dealt with.”
July 23rd
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--mark-emmert-ncaa-president-penn-state-sanctions-exclusive-interview-joe-paterno.html
Emmert told Y! Sports that a multi-year suspension of the football program was "vigorously
discussed" with members of the Division I Board of Directors. Ultimately, Penn State's
willingness to take its medicine – commissioning, accepting and making public the
damaging Freeh Commission report, and accepting massive NCAA penalties without due
process – helped save the school from a complete shutdown of football for a season or
longer, Emmert said.
July 24th
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57478499/why-ncaa-decided-against-death-
penalty-for-penn-state/
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“Many people wanted us to impose the so called death penalty – the suspension of
play. The reason that I and the executive committee decided not to impose the death
penalty was that it was too blunt an instrument. It effects too many people that had
utterly nothing to do with these affairs.”
Quotes by Dr. Rod Erickson (the quotes below are from the Board Discussion, Public
Meeting, Sunday, August 12, 2012.):
“Emmert indicated that our only chance to avoid the death penalty along with
sanctions might be to offer a consent decree that would have unprecedented
penalties but would allow us to keep our program running.
President Emmert and the NCAA staff indicated throughout the week that it was not
at all clear that the NCAA Board members would accept the consent decree without
involving the death penalty or penalties even more severe and we didn’t know until
late Saturday that the NCAA Board was willing to go along with the consent decree
option and it was late Saturday that we learned that.
During the week I kept the Board of Trustees leadership, Chairman Peetz and Vice
Chairman Masser briefed that there were discussions with the NCAA that were
moving along very quickly, that the sanctions were going to be severe in any case
and that the NCAA had said emphatically that any leak of these discussions by Penn
State would take any deal off the table and the NCAA would go the other route.”
(Meaning death penalty)