“I can almost guarantee you that in every NCAA case like this, the entire school administration along with many of its alumni is complicit in whatever wrongdoing brought on the sanctions.”
If that’s the case, then as usual, the kids are the only ones to be hurt. And not even the kids involved in the wrong doing, it’s the current crop that pays. Not every athelete gets the star treatment.
If I remember correctly, this is exactly what happened when SMU was hit with some serious sanctions about 20+ years back.