You've probably heard this before, but the NCAA is awful. If you're reading this, you're probably tied to Penn State in one way or another, so you already know this. You have also probably called for more people to be critical of the NCAA, and if you went on ESPN yesterday, the one year anniversary of the NCAA sanctioning Penn State for the Sandusky scandal, you saw that. For those who didn't go onto ESPN, well, here:
Penn State announced yesterday that single game tickets for football will go on sale July 30...but there's a catch.
After more than three decades at Penn State, Wayne Smutz, Penn State’s World Campus Executive Director, has been named dean of Continuing Education and Extension at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Penn State is one of twelve Big Ten schools that will use what would have been Penn State's bowl revenues for various child-related charities.
Each university will be given $188,344 by the Big Ten for a total just under $2.3 million. That number would have been the amount of money Penn State would have received from the Big Ten in revenue had they been eligible to participate in a bowl game.
Penn State baseball may not have a coach, but they do have the tenth best stadium in all of college baseball, according to College Baseball Daily.
With college baseball in the middle of its offseason, the site is ranking its ten best stadiums in America. Despite not being "thought of as a baseball school," (their words, not mine) Penn State does boast one of the premier ballparks in the country.
In the seemingly never ending game of legal chess, the NCAA responded to the Paterno family lawsuit within the 20 day deadline, asking the judge to dismiss the case. The highly publicized lawsuit lists 21 parties including university trustees and former football players.
It was purely procedural, but there are some interesting takeaways none the less.