ESPN's "Outside The Lines" Airing Nassar Story Tomorrow

"I don't buy the notion that there's no issue with competitive advantage behind this whole scandal simply because it involves a low profile, non-revenue sport. "  I'm not saying it's because it's a low revenue sport and I'll admit there might be a competive and/or prestige/marketing advantage to being tied to Nassar and the Olympics.  What I don't agree is your next statement about football and basketball's crescendo of prestige and any connection to Nassar.  The scandal unfolding now is not hurting either of those programs so no I don't believe they covered up anything to protect those teams.  It seems like they might have covered up (no solid evidence yet) but I expect that was to protect themselves and/or the programs impacted.  If it comes out that Izzo demanded this be covered up (and the AD agreed) so he can keep a clean image, then holy shit yes let's destroy the entire university.  This would be closer to the PSU situation.

I agree NCAA needs to be in the business of protecting student athletes, but this is just bigger than them now.  Your logic implies that an AD (or anyone in power) will feel more impact (and thus deterrence) if the school gets punsihed than if they lose their job and go to jail.  Do you feel that way?  Would you rather lose your job and be in jail than have your company be penalized?  NCAA might play a role here, but it's much later and much smaller.  I'd rather see FBI, Ingham County, MSU Police, Title IX investigators, and then NCAA.  So far, we have only seen a little bit of the first shoe drop (child porn conviction).  Don't forget, we only know one fact for sure: Nassar is guilty.  We don't know have (I haven't seen) the smoking gun yet.  PSU had emails uncovered that led to arrests, I don't see that here... yet.  It all smells bad, but we have to let it play out more.  

Finally, my biggest concern with ncaa is your last comment: "Is it fair to punish athletes for sins of the past?  Probably not, but that's the system we have. "  This is missing the point.  Yes, that's an unfortunate situation but that happens when future Ole Miss players are punished because half the team was banging hookers that Hugh was buying - no one feels bad for players making bad decision and/or cheating.  In the MSU situation, the students would be punished for being sexually assaulted.  Sorry, but that is not ok by me.  in one sentence you want the ncaa to protect the student athletes, but here you want student athletes to be penalized for coming forward with sexual assault.  It's already hard enough for them to come forward with this, don't hang the fact that it could hurt all of their teammates over their head when trying to cope with the fact that they were abused.  that is just crazy to me and is definitely not my definition of "protecting student athletes." 

Finally, think of this from the perspective of the victims.  If you were a 15 year old (or the parent of one) that was violated by this scum bag, what justice do you seek?  Are you happy to hear that the gymnastics team can no longer go to nationals (or in your scenario the basketball/football teams received a post season ban)?  Or do you want everyone who hurt you or enabled Nassar to get fired/arrested?  If it's my daughter, i want jail time, not post season bans.