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 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.
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.
The three newest members of the Penn State Board of Trustees are now publicly backing five of their fellow board members and the 15 other plaintiffs who are suing the NCAA.
The Department of Education said the law didn't apply. The Office of Open Records said the law didn't apply. But the Commonwealth Court said the Right-to-Know law applies to the state Secretary of Education in his or her capacity as an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees.
The DC Superior Court ruled that Michael Mann, a world-renown climatologist and Penn State professor, can proceed in his lawsuit against the National Review and Competitive Enterprise Institute. Last July, the two conservative organizations shared an article that compared the professor to Jerry Sandusky.