It just seems a lot of folks care MORE about the NCAA and their authority than the crime itself. The NCAA wouldn't even be in this situation if the fucker had not molested young children and the other fucksticks had not covered it up. Fuck PSU and Joe Pa. They deserve anything they get here, NCAA overreaching or not. I could careless. If the NCAA only did it with consent, then we have nothing to worry about on precedent.
I would have been fine with the NCAA shutting them down completely, if it was within their authority. Nobody is saying that PSU doesn't deserve what it got. I just don't agree with how the NCAA did it. And if you think that this isn't precedent, I think you may be surprised at some point down the road. Using the NCAA's methodology, this is precedent. Think about it for a second. PSU was between a rock and a hard place. If they fight this, then that is going to be even more bad PR for them. But they would eventually win the fight, because there is no bylaw that they violated.
But at what cost would they win, really? If they had to deal with the NCAA again on an actual violation, they would be fucked. The NCAA has now set a precedent for themselves that basically says even if you haven't committed a violation technically, we can still try to strongarm you into something. They will keep that shit in their back pocket. Just think about that when something comes up that should probably be a violation, but the NCAA just didn't think about such an odd scenario happening and the bylaws don't cover that.