NCAA: Penn State expected to return bowl game trophies

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Updated: 8/29/2012 5:31 pm
HARRISBURG -- After having 14 years of victories wiped out, Penn State will likely have its bowl game championship trophies taken away, too.

The NCAA expects Penn State to return the trophies its won to the agencies or organizations which administer those bowls, a NCAA spokesperson told CBS 21 News Sports Director Jason Bristol.

Last month, the NCAA announced severe sanctions against Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, including vacating 111 of Joe Paterno's wins from 1998-2011.

Penn State won six bowl games during that time: the Outback (1999, 2007), Alamo (1999, 2007), Orange (2006) and Capital One (2010), respectively.

It's unclear when Penn State will return the trophies. The university didn't respond immediately to a request for comment.

The bowl game trophies are displayed in the lobby of the Lasch Football Building, a 89,000-square-foot facility that also contains an auditorium, meeting rooms, locker rooms, and a weight room.

Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant, was convicted in June of abusing 10 boys. The NCAA also punished Penn State with a four-year bowl ban and a $60 million fine.




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pl3810 - 8/31/2012 3:32 PM
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May I ask on what returning the trophies will do? It's not like they can use them for anything else.... My opinion Penn State should melt them down for scrap and take the money from scrapping them and pay the fines the NCAA sanction on them. Then they can tell the NCAA here are the trophies and the fine money and have a nice Fing day. I think this situation although tragic as gone too far and the NCAA should have kept there Fing noses out of it. Penn State did not violate any NCAA rules. Everything that happened was a criminal matter that a few staff members were in. Not past, present, or future Penn State football players. Also I lost all respect for the NCAA.

koozieflute - 8/29/2012 9:38 PM
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The only culture of Penn State (please note the proper spelling of the name) is Success with Honor, which includes an 80% graduation rate among athletes. Please provide evidence of this supposed deliberate cover up and harboring of a pedophile. And saying "The Freeh report says so" doesn't count. Real evidence and facts, not speculation and supposition. Penn Staters know a terrible thing happened, and there is true concern for the victims. But we can also be upset about what we perceive as unfair punishments on the students, school, and community.

justicenow - 8/29/2012 6:30 PM
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Go Lions comment below is a perfect example of the shameful 'pervasive culture' that the Freeh Report blames for The Cover-Up. When is Ped State ever going to "get it". You harbored a pedophile. Children were hurt, on your campus. Accept it. Show contrition, remorse and true concern for the real victims, the innocent little boys whose innocence was brutally stolen by Sandusky, largely on the PSU campus.

Go Lions - 8/29/2012 4:01 PM
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Someone should take Emmert to a dark alley someplace and beat the living crap out of that idiot. Of course that would be an all day job because he is so full of it !!!!!

Willie Green - 8/29/2012 9:58 AM
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Melt them down for scrap.

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