"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it." (Plato)

.....Since I vented my views on the situation with Penn State, I have read in newspapers and magazines and have heard commentators on TV excoriate the NCAA for the harshness of the penalties inflicted on the university.  These media people expressed their opinions much more vehemently than I did on my blog the other day.  

*(Portions of the following article originate on ESPN.com)

.....A source familiar with the investigation into Penn State's response to former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse scandal is speaking out against the NCAA.

.....According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, a person connected to the Freeh report, which condemned Penn State's handling of Sandusky's abuse, said the NCAA should not have based its harsh sanctions against the university on the investigation.

.....The NCAA took this report and ran with it without further exploration," the source said. "If you really wanted to show there was (something) to cover up, interview the coaches. See their knowledge and culpability ..."  The failure to do so, according to the source, has damaged Penn State.

....."The sanctions against Penn State were really overwhelming, and no one imagined the report being used to do that. Instead, Mark Emmert, NCAA President, took the report and used Penn State's own resources to do them in. The institution is made of people, too. And they don't deserve this."

(.....Meanwhile, former Penn State players Franco Harris, Rudy Glocker and Christian Marrone have sent an e-mail to other Penn State alumni saying the Freeh report "is highly flawed, and factually insufficient.)

.....I do hope that the new administration at Penn State and its coaches will appeal the NCAA penalties which they so richly undeserve.