Not at all out of line, considering the crime and the damage done to the victims.

It's NOT the University at fault.. it's the people running the college who knew that should be held liable. The huge fine will be recovered through the pockets of University students, teachers, alumni, and public events. Everyone will pay for the selfish and concealed acts of a few.

Although closing the football program at Penn State would affect thousands of people especially other athletic programs that depend on football revenue and businesses that depend on the football cash cow it would send a powerful example to all other schools. Just remember all of those people who backed Peterno and did not want to believe rhe truth. The police force and all of the others who were afraid to step forward. Football at all levels

I don't think the penalty is severe enough! Although, the civil suits haven't started yet, soooo....we will see. No amount of money can "pay" for what happened, even if it was only one child! Remember...45 counts! I wish Joe Paterno was still alive so he could suffer through the agony of having his wins stripped and feel the shame and embarrassment that I hope everyone else involved feels. I wish he could have been forced to watch as his statue was removed. Some will say he already got the ultimate punishment because he is dead. Bull. He was old. He got the easy way out in my opinion. There are people that feel sorry for him because he isn't here to defend himself. I am sorry he isn't here to defend himself, too. That way he could put all of HIS family through the humiliation that everyone else involved has already suffered.

I don't feel it is severe enough. The crimes, the cover up's. The football program should have recieved the kiss of death.

The next time a surgeon is performing brain surgery on you, and he (or she) hears a report of your recreational vegetable or chemical use, the surgeon should immediately "ungown/scrub," abandon his surgery, leaving whoever to close you up, and report to the police station and remain there until you die, are brought to justice, or are exonerated. This is exactly what is expected of Paterno, posthumously, of course. The football players? they should be punished for being supposedly guided by the Penn State administration and the board of directors, or whatever those politically correct mealy-mouth apologists are titled. There are no winners among those cats, and true justice will only accrue to the perpetrator, on behalf of the victims. When some of you critics get to be seventy or so, maybe you will have got some sense, and will have figured out that crime has perpetrators and victims and the justice system. I could sort it out for y'all, but nobody is listening. Just continue to screw it up like y'all have so far. Penn State officialdom will not get away free. I forget: how did the players screw up in the Sandusky mess?

Your joking right??? there's a recreational use for veggies???