NCAA president Mark Emmert will announce “unprecedented” penalties against the Penn State football team and the school, a high-ranking NCAA source told CBS News.
News of the announcement comes on the same day that workers removed the 7-foot bronze statue of Joe Paterno by order of Penn State officials, and less than two weeks after an independent investigation conducted by former FBI director Louis Freeh indicated a cover-up by four top Penn State officials, including Paterno, of allegations of child sex abuse against assistant coach Jerry Sandusky over a decade.
The worst penalty that the NCAA can hand down is the death penalty, which the NCAA gave SMU's football program in 1987, canceling the Mustangs’ season for paying players.
Days earlier, Emmert had not ruled out use of the death penalty. In a PBS interview, Emmert said he's "never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university."
The NCAA had been awaiting the school’s response to four key questions pertaining to the sex abuse scandal, including institutional control, CBS News reports.
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