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Just over 48 hours ago Penn State University’s football program was handed [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]down sanctions galore by the NCAA, stemming from more than a decade’s worth of covering up [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]the sexual abuse of children by former offensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky.
[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]The team lost an unprecedented amount of scholarships and was hit with a [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]four-year bowl ban, among other things. Harvey Araton, sports writer for The New York Times, [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]believes (despite the mass difference in scandals) current PSU football coach, Bill O’Brian, [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]could use Rick Pitino’s arrival at Kentucky in the wake of the Eddie Sutton penalties as a [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]blueprint.
[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]Speaking of players left to face the repercussions of those before them, Araton wrote:
[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]“How do you keep emotional and impressionable young men in your tattered tent when they are [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]free to flee and experts are already assuring them their team will be enshrouded in competitive [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]darkness? You begin, perhaps, by trying to convince them that a community’s restoration of [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]principles and pride might actually be worth more in the grand scheme of things than the pursuit[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]of a trophy.”
[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]As we all know, Pitino was able to weather the storm, so to speak, and bring pride and trophies [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]back to UK. For O’Brian, though, it’s just beginning.
[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]Read the full article [URL=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/sports/ncaafootball/what-kentucky-basketball-can-teach-penn-state-harvey-araton.html?_r=1″]here[/URL].[/COLOR][/FONT]
