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I can’t see how this is anything other than grandstanding. When you pay a fine, you don’t have control over what happens with it.
Jake Corman (R., Centre), who represents the area where Penn State’s campus is located and chairs the Appropriations Committee, contends that the NCAA’s plans to spend the $60 million are an illegal violation of his oversight role on state government spending.
“Even though the NCAA intends to wrest such a large sum of Pennsylvania public funds, it has refused to submit to any control by Pennsylvania elected officials and refused to commit more than 25 percent of those public funds to Pennsylvania causes,” Corman’s lawsuit said.
Pennsylvania’s governor has already filed suit against the college sports cartel.
There is a bright side.
If it takes the NCAA down a few pegs while making Pennsylvania Republicans look silly(ier?), it’s all good.
