Penn State Thoughts

Information is swirling today about the NCAA sanctions against Penn State in the aftershocks of the Sandusky fiasco. Granted I'm not there, and absolutely do NOT know everything that is going on, but based upon what I DO know, I'm mad.
I do not like that the student athletes will suffer the consequences of those who did so much damage to the program already. How is that an effective form of discipline and punishment? What did THEY have to do with this? All the student athletes did was dream, work, and train to gain entrance into a fine athletic program. They've attended football camps, countless practices, have refined their skills and talents, and have probably been scuffed up along the way, and now they have been potentially trapped into a dead end program that is going to be heavily punished?
I think about my own dad. I cannot imagine how much practice hours, sweat, and determination went into his own football years and a young kid. It was because of that hard work he earned a scholarship to college. It was because of that scholarship that he came out of a house of 12 with a college degree. The rest is history. What if he would've gotten to UTEP in the late-summer of 1974 and officials shut down the program? What if his scholarship was yanked--not due to misbehavior or wrongdoing on HIS part, but to something (disturbing and severe) one of the assistant coaches did? How are any of Sandusky's crimes remotely related to the new coaching staff, the new university administration, and the student athletes? Sandusky is sick, guilty, and a true predator. He (and whomever truly knew about the abuse) deserves whatever punishment is coming to him. The students DO NOT. Again, I don't pretend to know everything about the case, but I just hope that wise decisions prevail when the dust settles.
What if such a student athlete were my own son? I hope the NCAA is thinking more about the student athletes and the effects of the sanctions of an entire town, and not just about what looks good on paper. There's so much more than that.