Junction

is there any evidence that the institution knew and covered up for Bobby?

Did petrino actually break any laws? I don't think he did.

How about coaches who get DWI's?

I'm satisfied with emmerts explanation for the punishment

He did not say that the sanctions were being imposed for criminal misconduct but for ethical misconduct damaging the integrity of college sports. There is no evidence regarding the Petrino incident because there wasn't an extensive investigation like there was in the Penn State case. I find it hard to believe that Petrino did what he did without anyone in the organization knowing about it. Penn St. did fire Joe Paterno when this came out.

For the record, I don't think they should be sanctioned. I just think that after this, the door is open.

I'm surprised the Baylor incident hasn't been referenced more in all of this.

The difference, and it's a major one, is that the Baylor incident involved improper benefits to players and a head coach lying to the NCAA. That's a very different situation, and one where the NCAA absolutely had the power, and the responsibility, to move on.

Technically I don't believe so. The NCAA penalized them for improper benefits (a crapload of them including paying the tuition for two players), lying about those benefits to the NCAA on multiple occasions, failure to report positive drug tests, etc. All of that lead to a lack of institutional control.

I agree that Arkansas took immediate action. Some might argue that Penn State has already taken actions to correct the institutional problems that led to what occurred.

The point of my post was not to call for the sanctioning of Arkansas, rather it was supposed to be a "preposterous" claim to provoke some to reconsider the implications of the Emmert's reasoning for imposing sanctions on Penn State. He did not say that there must be a criminal offense AND ethical misconduct to allow the NCAA to sanction. He said that the culture of Penn State allowed "ethical misconduct detrimental to college sports" to occur and the sanctions were designed to be both punitive and enact cultural change at the institution. He did NOT say that the sanctions were being imposed to prevent the future molestation of children in college facilities. My point is that in the future the NCAA could sanction institutions for ethical misconduct and the infraction might not be something that is so universally repulsive as sexually assaulting children.

The lesson to learned from all of this is that you take immediate disciplinary action against the individual responsible for the issue.

The NCAA will then look at the self imposed penalties/sanctions and decide if they were strong enough.

This happens all of the time in normal everday NCAA violation cases.

In Petrino's case, they penalized him extemely harshly by firing him as soon as the issue came to light. Penn State did not do that.