No, the students can go somewhere else to play. Punish the school as much as legally possible: suspend the football program for 5 to 10 years, bust them down to division 2 or 3 with no television coverage or bowl eligibility. Make them an example to other schools before it happens again. Otherwise, the administrators only need to find a scapegoat and sacrifice him even though everybody above him is implicit in the crime. Allowing business as usual is not a solution, it still ignores the fact that a serious crime was perpetrated while everyone turned away to avoid tarnishing the precious football program’s image.
No, the students can go somewhere else to play. Punish the school as much as legally possible: suspend the football program for 5 to 10 years, bust them down to division 2 or 3 with no television coverage or bowl eligibility. Make them an example to other schools before it happens again. Otherwise, the administrators only need to find a scapegoat and sacrifice him even though everybody above him is implicit in the crime. Allowing business as usual is not a solution, it still ignores the fact that a serious crime was perpetrated while everyone turned away to avoid tarnishing the precious football program’s image.