Reports: Penn State facing big NCAA sanctions Monday, but no death penalty
The Penn State football program and the school will be handed "corrective and punitive measures" by the NCAA on Monday.
A high-ranking NCAA source said, "I've never seen anything like it," according to CBS News, which first reported the sanctions.
ESPN reported that announcement will not be the NCAA's well known "death penalty," but it will include deep scholarship cuts and loss of bowl eligibility for many years.
Sources told Yahoo! Sports that the punishment will be"significant" and "staggering."
The announcement will be made at 9 a.m. ET Monday in Indianapolis by NCAA president Mark Emmert and Ed Ray, chairman of the NCAA's executive committee, according to a statement.
The NCAA decision comes in the wake of the independent investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh, whose findings were made public July 12. In the report, Freeh's investigative team revealed Paterno allegedly had detailed knowledge of activity involving Jerry Sandusky before and after Sandusky retired in 1999.
Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of criminal child sex abuse against 10 victims. With three more victims speaking out last week, the grand jury investigation that led to Sandusky's arrest in November is ongoing and more charges could be filed.
Sandusky faces more than 440 years behind bars and is awaiting sentencing likely to be scheduled in September.
NCAA has remained quiet about its investigation of Penn State and how the Sandusky scandal affects the athletics department. NCAA officials had been waiting for the school to respond to questions before taking action.
The Freeh report was critical of the trustees' secrecy and its deference to university leaders in allowing the crisis to continue and cause more harm for more than 14 years. It alleged a lack of institutional control, which is a red flag term for the NCAA.
Normally the NCAA conducts its own investigations and schools are given a notice of allegations and due process hearings. However, ESPN reported Emmert was granted authority to sanction Penn State "through non-traditional methods.
The NCAA has handed down the death penalty -- which shuts down a program for a year -- once, to SMU in 1987. The school also shut down the program for the 1988 season.
A source told ESPN that Monday's penalties could be more crippling than a death penalty.
This would be the latest event in a tumultuous weekend at the State College, Pa., campus. On Saturday Steve Garban, who was the chairman of the Penn State board of trustees during the Jerry Sandusky scandal, resigned and the statue of the late football coach Joe Paterno was removed from Beaver Stadium on Sunday morning.
According to the Freeh report, Garban was informed by then-university president Graham Spanier in April 2011 of the Sandusky investigation, but failed to notify the other trustees.
In October 2011, Garban was informed by Spanier that athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz were about to be indicted. Garban told two trustees -- John Surma and Jim Broadhurst - about that information, but did not tell any of the other trustees.
Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of criminal child sex abuse against 10 victims. With three more victims speaking out last week, the grand jury investigation that led to Sandusky's arrest in November is ongoing and more charges could be filed.
Sandusky faces more than 440 years behind bars and is awaiting sentencing likely to be scheduled in September.
