Here's the real reason why the NCAA won't punish teams

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

no matter how egregious the violations. We all know Penn State, but let's face it, Baylor should pretty much receive the death penalty. And UNC should really be battered with sanctions.

Why? It is not like when SMU got whacked. There weren't these huge, conference specific TV contracts. So if you would kill football at say Baylor, or Penn State, or ban them from TV, you are also also hurting all of the other conference members because these schedules are made out so far in advance.

That's why the NCAA is not going to do anything, because at the end of the day, the NCAA is the college presidents, and the power schools have already pushed aside the NCAA and know they got TV and all of the revenue with them, that the NCAA should really just save everyone money, hassle, and time and just do away with its justice department. They are more ineffective than the NHL's Dept of Player Safety.

 

[Panther Parrothead]

no matter how egregious the violations. We all know Penn State, but let's face it, Baylor should pretty much receive the death penalty. And UNC should really be battered with sanctions.

Why? It is not like when SMU got whacked. There weren't these huge, conference specific TV contracts. So if you would kill football at say Baylor, or Penn State, or ban them from TV, you are also also hurting all of the other conference members because these schedules are made out so far in advance.

That's why the NCAA is not going to do anything, because at the end of the day, the NCAA is the college presidents, and the power schools have already pushed aside the NCAA and know they got TV and all of the revenue with them, that the NCAA should really just save everyone money, hassle, and time and just do away with its justice department. They are more ineffective than the NHL's Dept of Player Safety.

Yep. That point was made at the time of the Nits' problems, when people were asking why they weren't being banned from TV appearances. Someone explained that not only would the Nits be punished, but so would the other team, too.

Personally, I would've allowed the games to be televised, but only to the opponents' region. In this day and age of electronics, I'm sure that it was possible -- but the almighty Big Ten just didn't want to, for the reasons that you listed.

 

[RaleighPittFan]

Allow the offending team to be on TV, BUT give 100% of the TV AND ticket gate money to the opposing team.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Allow the offending team to be on TV, BUT give 100% of the TV AND ticket gate money to the opposing team.

That's not the point. Look at the fines, the civil amounts that PSU had levied against them. And don't just focus this on PSU. UNC, Baylor, Miami among others are deserving of huge sanctions or worse, and nothing is happening.

What you could (SHOULD) do is no team on NCAA punishment on such a level gets national TV slots, (no PSU/OSU Saturday Night ABC)