Exactly one year ago, Penn State was leveled by revelations released in the Louis Freeh Report. The NCAA responded swiftly and severely, hammering the PSU program with restrictive sanctions that would potentially devastate Nittany Lions football.
On Friday, PSU coach Bill O?Brien made a private, hourlong presentation to the board of trustees that indicated the university might be planning an appeal to the NCAA to reduce some of the sanctions levied.
According to the Centre Daily Times, O?Brien used several presentation slides, including one that read ?potential proposal to modify sanctions.? Another addressed the impact of scholarship reductions, while another warned of the negative impact of individual lawsuits filed against the NCAA.
Trustees chairman Keith Masser told reporters that the board "would like to" appeal the sanctions "at some point" but said that there is no timetable for doing so and the board still needs to develop a plan. According to the Centre Daily Times, Masser said he had invited O'Brien to update the board on the football program.
O?Brien and president Rodney Erickson declined to comment after the presentation.
According to the university, Penn State has implemented 115 of 119 recommendations made in the Freeh Report, which investigated Penn State?s response to allegations made against former coach and now convicted felon, Jerry Sandusky.
Meanwhile, the board of trustees announced several tentative settlements have been reached with Sandusky victims.
The deals are limited to a range of dollar values that the board received in a closed-door session before their public meeting Friday at a branch campus and another meeting held June 25.
The school won't be commenting on specifics until the deals have been made final, which could happen in the coming weeks. Erickson called approving the settlement offers "another important step toward the resolution of claims from Sandusky's victims."
"As we have previously said, the university intends to deal with these individuals in a fair and expeditious manner, with due regard to their privacy," Erickson said in a statement issued after the settlement resolution was approved.
Sandusky, 69, was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including violent attacks on boys inside school facilities, after a three-week trial last summer in which eight victims testified against him. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term and maintains he was wrongfully convicted. He is pursuing appeals.
The university said in a statement that "no settlement agreements have been signed and the discussion with counsel for the various individuals remains confidential."
More than 30 have come forward with sex abuse claims involving Sandusky. The school said it won't comment until settlements have been finalized, executed and delivered.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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