Cry me a freakin' river. I was attending SMU in 1987 when they received the Death Penalty. The majority of the players, boosters and administrators were long gone by the time the penalty kicked in. That is often the case in these situations - people who had nothing to do with the sins endure the punishment. For two years, soccer was our homecoming. Lots of people were hurt for no reason other than a few boosters, with the blessing of the administration, were better at buying players than the rest of the NCAA.
The two years we did not play (we could have played away games only in year 2, but opted against it), allowed the university to clean house and get the priorities straight. THAT is what PSU needs by the truckload.
Stop drinking the Happy Valley kool aid and see how heinous this is. The longer PSU dances around with "investigations" and band aids like painting the showers, the worse the nightmare will get. Go Google "shut down PSU football." I am not alone in my opinion that drastic measures are needed for the nation at large to believe that the university is serious that protecting young boys from being raped in PSU showers and not covering it up when it is discovered, is a little more important than college football. Yes, even in Happy Valley!
The Death Penalty is the best thing that ever happened to SMU, it’s a great school now, the death penalty forced them to focus on what really matters.
I will say that, there is one huge difference between SMU and Penn State. Shutting down SMU football had minimal impact on the Dallas economy, shutting down PSU football will devastate the Happy Valley economy.