Revisiting the NCAA, USC, Reggie Bush, Penn State and the pedophile

A few weeks ago the NCAA came out and said to the chagrin of parents everywhere, and a stunned by pepper spray nation, that the Reggie Bush case, and the pedophile at Penn State were "not comparable"; as reasoning for not releasing USC from their onerous sanctions, while easing up on PSU.

Today we find out that PSU is paying out $59.7 million to 26 victims of the pedophile they allowed free reign to rape and destroy.

Hmmm, not comparable.... yet PSU is released from most of their NCAA penalty for losing institutional control, admitting that moral failure by paying out nearly $60mil, and the NCAA hands them a hall pass.
How is this even possible in the real world?

Aren't we all just a little shocked that the people running the NCAA are telling us that; the alleged never proven allegations against the Bush family for accepting money from a independent sports agent are somehow more reprehensible than a skeezy old man, and longtime PSU employee raping 26 little boys in the campus shower?

USC never gave the Bush family a dime outside the scholarship earned by Reggie to play ball.
No coach at 'SC has ever been accused of the crimes that piece of crap is now serving time for.
So how does 'SC's "loss of institutional control" come out being demonized as far worse than what PSU allowed their employee to perpetrate on their property?

The sports agent involved in the Bush case was not an employee of USC.
He did not woo the Bush's on campus with dollars and automobiles; and if he had would we still look at him as though he'd fallen down a few rungs on the ladder of life below a pedophile?
Not on the ladder I climb. There is no rung for pedophiles.

Sandusky was an employee of PSU, a longtime employee, and trusted friend of Joe Paterno's.
He used that position to prey on at least 26 young boys whose parents trusted him without reservation vis a vis his connection to PSU and Paterno.

PSU should not only be disallowed a year of particpation in all NCAA sports for every year the pedophile preyed on the prepubescent while on the PSU campus, they should also forfeit an additional year for each of his victims.

Which for me at the age of 52 would mean, that I would never have to be reminded of their "loss of institutional control" on  cool fall Saturdays, ever again.
I feel better already.

Sports Reflection

Having read today that USC's appeal against NCAA sanctions, those imposed in the wake of the Reggie Bush scandal; had been denied I really didn't think much about it.
Not much, until that is, I read the quote attributed to NCAA spokesperson Meghan Durham:
" There is no comparison betwen the USC and Penn State cases."

You know I'm with her; there is no comparison.
I mean how can anyone compare a school being penalized for one student taking money to play football; with another school being penalized for allowing a longtime employee free reign to rape little boys in the school locker room for years on end?

Well said Meghan, there can be no rational comparison.
However, in speaking for the NCAA you have just thrown a mirrors stark reflection back on one of the key areas where America just can't seem to get it right.

We place no value in protecting our children from pedophiles, especially when the guy can coach football.
Well at least until he's exposed...

So now the NCAA has just come out and said what our courts and society have been saying forever.
That fictional amateur status of college athletes is seriously more important than the vetting and prosecution of serial pedophiles.
I can't be the only guy who finds this state of affairs fundamentally flawed. Am I?

Way to go Meghan, hope you don't have a little boy or girl who falls into a Sandusky Trap.
If you do, and God forbid some heinous piece of crap ever touches your child; will you ever be able to look back on this statement and stand by it?
Will you be able to look back and say "I did the right thing"?
How do you face your mirror every morning look yourself in the eye, and believe such a thing?
I'm mystified.