Four years of exile... a lifetime of pain.

  Were you expecting the NCAA to actually take the knife of justice and slit the collective throat of a program as foul as Penn State?  If you answered no, then you're in the majority.  The NCAA would never sacrifice one of its business partners at the altar, even if it was necessary.  As proven, time and again, the NCAA is only interested in LOOKING official without really doing ANYTHING.  I know, the Penn State football program has essentially been set ablaze.  Sixty million in fines that are equivalent to, as reported, the total amount of revenue the football program generates for PSU football as a whole.  And then there's the lack of scholarships, which means that Penn State has been transformed into a tomato can for the next four years.  Still, in a perfect world, the NCAA would've sentence the football program in Creepy Valley to death and THEN issued the sanctions.  The point of the punishment was to make sure that Penn State pays for its sins of denial and untruth and lack of morality by NEVER becoming relevant as a football program again.  So what happens in four years when the sanctions are repealed?  I'll tell you what happens Penn State football gets out of jail and the collective amnesia begins.  Student Athletes wanting to go pro and looking for a landing spot until they can enter the draft won't remember any sins of the football programs past.  The sanctions will be repealed, parole will be granted and then the delusional masses in Happy Valley will get the gift of selective amnesia as they fill up Beaver Stadium 100,00 strong on selected Saturdays in the fall.  The Big Ten seems to be satisfied that it won't have to share its revenue pie with Penn State for four years.  That's all well and good but what happens after four years when PSU is eligible to sit at the table and help itself to a big old piece of Big Ten revenue pie.  A worse punishment for PSU football would've been branding the institution itself as a nomad.  The Big Ten should've cast them out, but of course, they didn't.  It's all about LOOKING efficient, not administering the proper form of justice.  In four years, Sandusky's victims won't have the benefit of selective amnesia.  No, his victims will have to live with what was done to them EVERY day of their lives.  Penn State has to weather four years of exile and then all is well.  Doesn't seem fair, doesn't it?  Give the NCAA credit, they acted on this issue at least.  Then again, they had to.