The men -- and their statues -- connected to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal have all been purged from Penn State and are/will be facing either facing criminal/civil charges or The Ultimate Judge .
Those left to clean up the collective mess, however, are bracing themselves to face the full wrath of the NCAA.
NCAA president Mark Emmert is scheduled to hold a press conference at 9 a.m. Monday morning to announce what’s being described as corrective and punitive measures for the Nittany Lions football program. CBS News’ Armen Keteyian is reporting that, according to a high-ranking association source, the penalties are expected to be “unprecedented.”
What those specific penalties will be are unknown, although it’s been rumored that the football program could be shuttered for at least one year as a response to the damning Freeh report. Emmert confirmed recently that all punitive options, including the so-called death penalty, were still on the table.
ESPN.com‘s Adam Rittenberg subsequently confirmed that PSU football is facing “significant” sanctions, and suggested that the NCAA and the university may have reached an agreement on the punitive measures. Regardless, the NCAA has taken the unprecedented step of bypassing its Committee on Infractions in order to take action against a member institution.
The Freeh report, in essence, accused multiple high-powered officials at the school, including deceased former head football coach Joe Paterno, of actively engaging in a cover-up of convicted serial pedophile Jerry Sandusky in order to protect both the university and the football program.