Because college head football coaches enjoy god like status in their communities and all of them should be put on notice that if you look the other way or just pay lip service to a severe problem in your program you and your program will be taken down.
Second the insiders at Penn State knew what was going on and they had the benefit to see what happens when it is handled badly (aka the catholic church) and they chose to cover it up anyway.
If Penn state does not deserved to be Nuked for this scandal then what exactly would a football program have to do to deserve to be nuked?
Penn state football needs to go away for a while and if I were a student there I would be looking for a new school whether I was a football player or not.
Universities should impose mandatory retirement on coaches at 65. He was 85 and dying of cancer when this last season started. He operated like a 3rd world dictator in State College. Not that it matters at all but, he was a terrible head coach, who surrounded himself with equally poor assistant coaches(Jay Paterno being the worst) who served him without question. To those who would like to see the football program shut down, it is pretty clear with every Blue Chip recruit looking at Penn State like Chernobyl University that the program will be a Big 10 doormat for years. To the football cultists that will be death by a thousand cuts.