Wes is right, and they aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. This is both a Criminal AND NCAA matter.
If I work for a bank and do something criminal relating to my work (ie - embezzling), my employer and their governing body (Federal Reserve and FDIC) and the police are all involved for different reasons. I don't want to let Penn State off the hook with the NCAA simply because I don't like the NCAA or because I don't want the Bahr elevated above Joe Pa.
If an NCAA violation has occured, they will get in trouble. If one hasn't then they won't. I think it at least needs to be looked at and everything on the table.
I will be swayed that it's an NCAA matter when someone can show me the NCAA bylaws that were violated. I've done some reading on this a while back, and I can't find any. "Lack of Institutional Control" is not a catch all charge. It's charged when there's a systematic, long standing, violation of multiple
NCAA Bylaws. Last I checked, the NCAA is not in the business of punishing sex offenders. I don't think they have any rules about that. I can't imagine that when any NCAA bylaw was written, that anything like this situation was contemplated. Someone once cited some bylaw that was tantamount to "conduct unbecoming" or something like that. Ok, that's one rule IF the facts here apply to the way it's written and what conduct in contemplates.
The trial is over. This came to light many months ago. What has the NCAA done, other than, for the sake of looking like they care, claim they would "look in to it"? He was found guilty. The truth all came out. Where's the PLOI? If I'm a betting man, and I am at times, I'd probably take action that it will never come to pass that the NCAA levies sanctions due to this, and if it were the death penalty, I'd pay double the bet. The public, alumni, and recruits will levy their own sanctions on PSU. They will be irrelevant for years.
Again though, the arguments for NCAA involvement are compelling, save one tiny item. What NCAA Bylaws were violated? Show me that, and don't try to twist and stretch to get there, and I'll be sold that it's an NCAA matter.
Me hedging my bets...the NCAA could just make some fucking shit up and raze State College PA. They should have all the equipment needed and it should be brand new and unused as they stocked up to do to AU in 2010, and all hopes were lost.