The people who will be punished by the NCAA for a situation that did not involve any actual athletics programs are a) the residents of State College, b) students and student-athletes who were mostly in middle school when this happened, c) small business owners in State College, and d) Penn State alumni, all of which had nothing to do with the actual crime...
...if that’s your main point, then simply replace the place name State College with any other place name where a college program has been sanctioned and, well, I think you’ve pretty well described the effects of said sanctions on that place...
...I’m sure you know this...just curious why you apparently think anything should be different for PSU and State College...
I don’t think things should be different for Penn State. It seems like you think I approve of other NCAA actions against USC or Ohio State and I don’t. I think that penalties should be levied by the NCAA if and only if the actual guilty parties can be punished. What they NCAA does not just tomorrow but in all cases like this is akin to punishing the family members of a dead murderer. SOMEBODY has to pay, even if it’s not the people who actually did anything wrong.