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Quiet! Don’t tell the Big Ten Conference or the NCAA but the Ohio State Buckeyes and Penn State Nittany Lions season’s should be celebrated and not jeered.
Is it Braxton Miller‘s fault that some dumb Ohio State players took illegal benefits? Did Matt McGloin rape young children? No and no are the obvious answers.
What Jerry Sandusky and the Buckeyes players did, to a much lesser extent, was clearly wrong. They broke laws of this country and the NCAA, respectively, and they deserved to be punished but why couldn’t they have been strictly financial? Hit the schools where it really would hurt them, in the pocketbook, and not punish the kids that have dedicated their lives to making your Saturdays more enjoyable. Yes, I understand that not having bowl games for either team will be a financial penalty in itself but you could have easily made a financial loss like that peanuts by slapping them with a bigger fine upfront.
Instead, we are here getting for a big game that is part of a great Saturday of college football, unfortunately though it won’t really matter. If a game is played but nothing to play for at the end of the season does it really matter? Spare me the pride factor. You have pride in practice. In a regular season game you should have a forward objective you are aiming for. These two teams should be fighting for the Big Ten’s Leaders crown but instead the Wisconsin Badgers will basically win it by default. Talk about a buzzkill. Oh but the Big Ten says they’ll give either Ohio State or Penn State a trophy if they “win” their division. How nice, it’s like that youth soccer league you played in when you were 8.
I suppose Ohio State is using this season as a tune up for a national title run next year. Assuming nothing crazy happens, they should be a real contender. Sadly, Penn State doesn’t have that chance. They’re under a bowl ban for another three years and that means we won’t really get to see what Bill O’Brien’s team can do at least until 2016 at the earliest. That makes no damn sense for a program that is a true “blueblood” of college football.
Everything today in our culture seems like it revolves around vengeance I get why you would hate the Penn State alums like Franco Harris who still deny that Joe Paterno really knew what was happening with Sandusky. I get why you want to punch out the students that wore shirts that made them look like the victims in all of this. Here’s the thing though, either of them won’t be stepping between the white lines anytime soon. You’ve got to think about the players first and foremost. Somewhere along the way it looks like they weren’t really a major concern to the Big Ten and NCAA. That’s just the sad reality.
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