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Our scandal heavily benefited athletes, nearly half of known suspicious classes were taken by athletes when athletes make up a small minority of students on campus. The perpetrators admitted that one of the motivators was to be friendly to athletes and to help them remain both in school and eligible to play.Our "scandal" was a failure of academic oversight that resulted in academic wrongdoing that incidentally benefited the athletic department.
Contrast that with massive criminal wrongdoing by senior members of an athletic team, covered up by senior members of the athletic department and the administration, to protect the athletic department.
They are night and day different.
Failing to sanction that school was unforgivable. They should have put all the statues of JoePa in the library to remind everyone to keep quiet.
The differences are not nearly as night and day as you state.
If the NCAA has the ability to sanction PSU for their child abuse scandal then they would have the ability to sanction us for our academic scandal. If anything, the case for NCAA jurisdiction over athlete academic eligibility would have been clearer than for criminal activity that wasn't centered around athletics but committed by athletic staff.
I agree that PSU failed miserably to take responsibility for the failures of multiple staff members and should have taken greater actions than they did.