Yeah, but when the PSU story broke, the Miami booster thing pretty much got ignored by the media. If the NCAA really wants programs to clean up, they should really toss around the Death Penalty around a little more liberally.
Miami coaches and staff knew the booster was hanging around the kids way too much. SMU got the Death Penalty for far less. Had the NCAA been on the ball, they could have handed both schools the DP for a year or two and made arrangements for Miami's and PSU's opponents that would lose out on those games to meet up with each other, with PSU and Miami footing the bill for those programs to do so. And that would be a weekly reminder for a season or 2 for all of the NCAA that its a **** good idea to run a **** clean program instead of trying to keep things covered up.
Not saying that kid rape isn't bad, as I feel as that's a crime where the guilty party should be treated to a short drop with a sudden stop within a month of his conviction. But the Booster paying off a stripper to abort a football players baby, a guy if I remember correctly had a pretty good shot at getting into the NFL, when she could have had him on the hook for child support for 18 years, that's just about as shady and disgusting as what just one kid rape would be. Both programs should have been given a Death Penalty for at least a year by the NCAA, and then the NCAA drags their feet about listening to their appeal until a large number of kids transfer out of both programs until they realize that they would just be better off taking their punishment now instead of trying to be competitive with 2/3rds of their upper classmen gone. Overall in the big picture, that's the way you're going to clean up college football.
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