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[QUOTE="manleyzoo, post: 1781815, member: 519"]
There's more subtlety to it than not comparing bad things. It's not the violations per se that give the impression that a program is dirty, it's validation by the NCAA that establishes and cements the perception. The problem with that, of course, is the validation is arbitrary and without third-party oversight.

In that sense, comparing alleged violations is very much the point. Inasmuch as the NCAA is judge, jury and executioner, no one holds its feet to the fire to abide by precedent, either in the length of an investigation or the time to inform a school of the allegations--and worst of all, to set a suitable punishment.

Back to your point...because of the NCAA's arbitrary DNA, there's no way to rationally compare violations because the punishments are so unevenly and irresponsibly applied. It's not a question of the crimes themselves, it's a question of the punishments that establishes the difference between crimes. The way the NCAA operates, no one gets to to know which crime actually is worse than another.
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