Penn State Fined $60M - No Bowls For 4 Years
Some people thought that if any football program deserved the death penalty it would be Penn State. Apparently though giving money to student athletes is the only way you can do that while molesting a bunch of kids costs you a fine and four years of missed bowl games they probably would not make anyway. The NCAA ordered Penn State to pay $60M in fines and barred them from appearing in any bowl games for the next four years.
The one big thing that it did was that it vacated every win that Penn State received from 1998 to 2011. You might say to yourself what is the big deal about something that happened 11 years ago and how no one remembers how many games a team won anyway. The thing is that it knocked Joe Paterno from the football coach with the most wins. This weekend, Penn State also removed the Joe Paterno statue that had been on the campus.
