Politics & Government

Solobay Calls Santorum's Penn State Comments 'Misguided'

The senator took aim at Rick Santorum, who suggested Penn State should be prohibited from bowl games in the wake of the sex-abuse allegations.

Any suggestion that Penn State’s football team be barred from post season play is misguided, state  said today.

“There are a lot of disturbing questions still unanswered about this Penn State scandal and a lot of concern about why they’re still unanswered after many years,” , D-Canonsburg, said. “But for many of those kids, these could be the last football games of their lives. Taking that away from students for something the faculty did or didn’t do is misguided.”

According to a report in the Des Moines Register, Rick Santorum, a former Republican U.S. Senator now running for president, said Penn State should not be invited to a bowl game and that it would be “in the best interests of everybody to finish the schedule and put this season behind us and move on.”

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“Penn State’s football players have worked and sacrificed much of their lives to get where they are,” Solobay said. “I haven’t heard any suggestion that the players were anything other than innocent, and they’ve already had to suffer through this.  If they earn a bowl bid on the field, they deserve to go.”

Any money the university receives for appearing in a bowl game should, after expenses are paid, the proceeds should be directed at efforts to protect children from sexual abuse, Solobay said.

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