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NCAA Mulls Serious Penalties for Penn State Scandal 7/17/12
CBS 7 News
July 17, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The president of the NCAA says he isn't ruling out the
possibility of shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
In a PBS interview Monday night, NCAA President Mark Emmert said he doesn't
want to "take anything off the table" if the NCAA determines penalties against
Penn State are warranted.
Emmert said he's "never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just
overall conduct and behavior inside a university." He added, "What the appropriate penalties are, if there are determinations of violations, we'll have
to decide."
The last time the NCAA shut down a football program with the so-called
"death penalty" was in the 1980s, when SMU was forced to drop the sport because
of extra benefits violations.