If other programs know they will lose money if they allow something this heinous to happen at their schools, they'll think twice before embarking on a cover-up.

and I think that big time college football should be eliminated, but the PSU mess does not rise to the level of a death penalty. SMU was caught paying its players, sanctioned, and of course told to not do it anymore. They continued to do it. I think once you finally got this scandal revealed, the right steps have been taken. The biggest thing the NCAA should do immediately is to allow the current scholarship athletes to transfer without penalty. As they transfer PSU should not be allowed to bring other scholarship athletes in until some period of time.

For those that say there was no technical NCAA violation, I disagree. A coverup to protect the football program is a violation.

SMU didn't begin to rise to this level. One of the NCAA's big pet peeves is 'lack of institutional control.' if this wasn't lack of control, I don't know what is.

In addition, by not revealing the abuse when it happened gave them years to ride on their exhalted claim of being a clean program. That alone gave them an advantage.

So they want to ride on with no penalties on the program when that the coaches of that program was the center of it. There are assistant coaches still there who were around. I don't believe they had no clue.

As far as punishing innocent players, the NCAA has done that for years. When they sanction programs with any penalties, they punish some not involved. Why is PSU exempt?

That just involved illegal payoffs, not child rape and coverups of sex crimes against minors.

IMO, child rape trumps paying players any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I would prefer to see the "death penalty" at PSU solely because of that but if there were going to be sanctions that weren't the death penalty, then monetary sanctions are important. College football programs only care about the money said programs bring to the school. That was the entire reason for the PSU cover-up... so it didn't damage their reputation, thus hitting them in the wallet.