I would push more for 8 or 9 years where two “generations” pass through without football. The idea is when last year’s freshman eventually graduate, the freshman the next school year after that graduation will little connection to football at PSU but when that freshman group graduate 4 years later and the next group of freshman come in, there be no connection and time to bring football back. So a timeline below:
2011 - freshman & scandal (Fall)
2015 - freshman now seniors graduate (Spring)
2015 - new incoming freshman class (Fall)
2019 - students who started in 2015 graduate (Spring)
2019 - Fall semester, resume football or even wait out a year
This would also take care of something like 5 or 6 year students who take longer to finish their coursework as well. The idea is to obliterate what Penn State football from the collective memory of PSU students and then start with a clean slate.
Allow the current ball players to transfer to a different school and even make sure they don’t waste a year of eligibility.
> Five years is minimum. It allows a full “generation” to pass at Penn state before they start over.
I love the liberal idiot author says the death penalty is not as bad as it sounds. Laughable. In this day and age, it would utterly destroy any top 50 program. Heck, SMU is now just barely relevant 30 years later.