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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 310490, member: 173"]
Lots of talk below that Penn State should get the death penalty.  I'm curious how Penn State getting the death penalty would affect Big 10 TV contracts/schedules.  If it would result in less revenues for other member schools of the Big 10, it's highly unlikely it would happen because there would be way too much political pressure behind the scenes not to apply the death penalty.  Honestly I would think almost every school (even those not in the Big 10) would be opposed...Maryland is already struggling to balance their books and won't want to ever risk getting screwed because Miami went so far over the line they got the death penalty (as one example).

Also, how would the "reinstitution" of the program be handled?  Back with SMU they had walk-ons playing and getting blown out by Notre Dame...in 2012 the kinds of kids that SMU let play would be leaving Big 10 fields in body bags.  There would need to be some serious thought to how the restart the program and get Penn State to a legitimate DI roster immediately.   Some poor idiot walk-on that was forced to play because they don't have a full roster in year one getting paralyzed at Michigan would be worse than a disaster for the NCAA.

I don't think any penalty other than the death penalty is appropriate, but I also think it would be opening dozens of cans of worms to do it and the NCAA doesn't have that many fishing poles.  If there's no death penalty, I question if there should be any penalty - the risk would be setting an apparent precedent that the penalty for protecting a pedophile = the penalty for Reggie Bush getting paid (or whatever comparison to another sanction the NCAA has handed down fits).
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