Pretend that every bit of the NCAA's sanctions against Penn State in 2012 held up.
We're not talking about the allegations by Jerry Sandusky's victims; this is about the stuff that eventually forced the NCAA to settle with Penn State — specifically, the alleged collaboration between the NCAA and Louis Freeh, and the "take this or else" way the NCAA got the university signature on the consent decree.
Just assume that the NCAA went about it the right way — that the scholarship rollbacks (from 25 to 15 a year), the roster reduction (85 to 65), the bowl ban (four years), the vacated wins (112), the fine ($60 million to child sex abuse prevention programs) and the transfer relaxations were all obtained in a way that'd hold up in court.