SMU, (Southern Methodist University), back in the ‘80s had a solid football program.
They were caught paying players around 750 a month to play ball, and a whole slew of other recruiting violations, pay to play, you name it, SMU was in on it.
The program was suspended for all their home games for a year. All their players were given scholarships to play elsewhere. Their entire staff was fired and let go, and they were prevented for two years from offering scholarships to players.
SMU chose not to field a team for the away games, and chose not to field a team the next year because they could not be competitive. The program, only 3 years afterwards was able to field a team filled with freshmen, and two years after that, and 5 years after the ban, they were able to have all scholarship players again.
The entire conference went down and SMU, even downgraded only just 2 years ago they were finally eligible for a bowl game, and lost.
As the others have mentioned, this would be a lenient option for PSU. So we shall see what happens. This scandal is way, way beyond what was going on at SMU.
That's the only proper word for the matter given the fact it IS college and not intra-mural.
I'm certain that given suffient Jesuit intellect bestiality could be argued as being too coarse and that merely homosexuality instead should apply.
In the old days people outright fell upon swords; they only opened their veins when asked (or when suicide would favor their family). Failing all that: their survivors lost any assets they had due to edict. It's my guess that we might've fallen at least that far.