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[QUOTE="javadoc, post: 308675, member: 338"]
Yes you can.  The coverup occurred precisely because it involved the football program.  Do you dispute that?
 
There is material benefit to the football program from the coverup, too, but there is for sure an argument about its degree.  It might be something as small as landing 10 recruits who would otherwise not have gone there over a period of several years, had they known.
 
I haven't come down on what I think the sanction should be, but it should be primarily against the football program.  The program must be taken down a notch.  The goal is to destroy enough of the institutional and cultural attitudes that even make it a consideration to cover up such crimes to protect the football program.
 
The NCAA must say, "If you believed (believe, in all likelihood) that your football program is more important than the lives of these victims - if your priorities are that evil and inhuman - that mindset must be destroyed."  The NCAA is positioned to do that through its authority over the athletics programs.  Dropping a firewall between the NCAA and the PSU football program, as you are advocating, is the recipe for allowing that culture to persist.
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