Doug Robinson: BYU deserved penalties, but not this

Nick Wagner

SALT LAKE CITY — Congratulations, NCAA! You’ve been unable to punish college basketball’s elite programs, so you picked on BYU.

BYU’s the little guy sitting in the front row of the harmless West Coast Conference class. BYU even tattled on itself by reporting the misdeeds of a booster and a player and then aided the NCAA investigation. So what do NCAA officials do? They give BYU the equivalent of a punch in the mouth and then pile on.

Nice.

Look, the Cougars deserve sanctions. Even if you think the pinheads at the NCAA are money-grubbing hypocrites whose mission is to control the hired hands, it doesn’t matter; BYU agreed to abide by the rules.

Nick Emery, a guard whose illicit pay…