DDT

The NCAA has rounded up as many innocent participants and bystanders as could be found to have had anything to do with Penn State football between 1998 to the present and said, “Hang ‘em all.”

With the impunity of a Middle Eastern theocracy, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has fined Penn State $60 mil, docked them four years post-season play, a number of scholarships, and has ruled that the Nittany Lions will vacate all their wins since 1998.

Vacated wins are not the same as forfeits, according to reports. They don't count as losses or wins for either school.

So Penn State didn’t win all those games they won, nor did they lose them, they only “vacated them.” And the teams that originally lost the games didn’t win them nor lose them.

Nobody won, nobody lost. So ... the games weren’t played?

This is a criminal matter. If Jerry Sandusky has been charged, tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity, then the head coach, athletic director and any university officials who had knowledge of Sandusky’s transgressions and did nothing about them should be charged and tried as well.

The death penalty was discussed as an option for Penn State football. Joe Paterno has already received his death penalty. It remains to be seen what will happen to the AD, university president and other officials who buried their heads in the sand and ignored this tragedy.

But players and coaches who had nothing to do with this situation or any knowledge of it should not be punished.

Somehow, the NCAA just never gets it right.