Why The NCAA Should NOT Give Penn State the Death Penalty (or any penalty)

     Okay before you freak out on me and just have a knee jerk reaction to the headline hear me out.  I am not one of those crazy people that think Penn State is getting screwed, or think that the punishment handed down by the NCAA was undeserved.  What I am arguing is that it was not the NCAA's place to discipline Penn State.  The NCAA was created to serve as the governing body of fair play in college sports.  Penn State did not gain a competitive advantage by looking the other way while a pederast used their locker room like a Rugrats themed brothel.  I understand why the NCAA didn't want a pedofile enabler as the all-time winningest coach but instead of vacating wins how bout just not putting his name on the list at all? This whole vacating wins thing is the dumbest punishment ever.  They're basically saying, "Hey, remember all those wins you had back then? Well, this piece of paper says they never happened." Unless the NCAA gets a hold of that device they're always using in Men In Black to wipe out people's memories vacating wins is about as effective as teaching abstinence in sex ed.
     So if the punishment doesn't come from the NCAA who should it come from? For starters it could be the Big 10.  Would it be that difficult for them to ban the football team for a season and not give them their share of the BCS money?  How about, as crazy as this may sound, the punishment comes from within the university? Penn State should be beyond embarrassed by this.  There is no doubt that this incident has lessened the value of a Penn State degree.  I feel like most outsiders looking in with some amount of common sense would think, "This has gotten out of control. We need to just step back and take a year or off from football.  We can reaccess the situation at the end of the year, but right now the football program has the university in a sleeper hold. " Penn State and many other universities around this fine country have let the dollars and cents of collegiate athletics hurt their reputations.  School administrations have lost touch with reality and forgotten that the job of college in society is not to turn a profit but to educate.