[JayP]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Because it makes everyone look bad?

The NCAA has a duty to protect the brand of college football. If PSU were to go unpunished and make a major bowl game this year do you know what every single article and broadcast would be filled with? The fact that an organization (yes, made up of individuals who may or may not be long gone) that is known for boy ####ing is playing in a bowl game.

By exiling them, which is essentially what happened, the NCAA has ensured that PSU's stink won't infect the rest of the multi billion dollar business that is college football.

So you agree it was a PR play then? Because "it makes us look bad" isn't really a valid reason to invent punishments to rules that aren't broken. Kind of the whole point of the rules in the first place. If the NCAA wants to re-write their bylaws to punish this sort of behavior that's great, but as of now this is a special exception that is just a PR play and likely won't have any bearing on future non-football related incidents.

See above, plus it makes me feel better. I think it is a stretch to assume that every single POS that had anything to do with this is now gone, there could be some people who knew who went unpunished.

So they're guilty until proven innocent is what you're saying.

Also, even though the university isn't a sentient entity and we are in actuality talking about people who had positions of power within that organization who are responsible the organization itself still needs to be punished.

That's the only good point I've heard - the university is responsible for putting those people in positions of power. But this has nothing to do with an athletic body like the NCAA.