NEW YORK — NCAA President Mark Emmert says he is pleased to see how well Penn State’s football team has bounced back from the sanctions the program received in 2012 after the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
Emmert, who spoke at an intercollegiate athletics forum Wednesday morning in Manhattan, says the massive scholarship limitations and four-year bowl ban placed on Penn State were not meant to cripple the program.
No. 5 Penn State (11-2) is having its best season since Sandusky, a longtime assistant of late Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno, was arrested in 2011 for sexual abuse. The NCAA bypassed its usual processes to punish Penn State.