At the behest of Mark Emmert, Penn State football will miss the postseason, including the B1G Championship Game, for the next four seasons. This should mean that the Nittany Lions finish their season with only twelve games. However, the benevolent NCAA provides a way Penn State can play a thirteenth game -- one that would be a bonus for the players.
The young men on the Penn State football team face a difficult decision. Should they stay or should they go? No matter what they decide, Nittany Nation needs to support them all, even if they decide to transfer.
Convening at around 5 p.m., the Board of Trustees met with President Erickson in a conference room at the Penn Stater Conference Center -- the same place where they met in November when they made the decision to fire Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno.
According to the Centre Daily Times, Bill O'Brien's contract as head coach of the Nittany Lions football team has been extended four years until 2020. This comes as part of an agreement with athletic director David Joyner when O'Brien first signed with the school that allowed for automatic extension equal to the number of years that the team may be sanctioned for.
Over the past two days, several current players have also taken to Twitter to announce their intentions. A Storify laying out their tweets is after the jump.
The debate on whether or not the sanctions handed down to Penn State by the NCAA are warranted has been ongoing with Penn Staters and college football fans alike over the last several days. But one area that hasn't been often discussed is whether President Rodney Erickson -- without approval from the Board of Trustees -- had the authority to sign the agreement with the NCAA essentially accepting the sanctions without even a whimper of a fight.