Miss. Ron, I detect some resentment there. Notre Dame got what it deserved. The university had violated the letter of the law, but on the spectrum of rule enforcement it was the equivalent of jaywalking in New York City. By the way, the NCAA doesn't take teams off TV anymore. The NCAA figured out it wasn't much of a deterrent.
Scholarships are the lifeblood of a program.
Take those away and you really hurt a school. Ask Ole Miss and Alabama. And I'm sure I forgot someone. As usual, I really enjoy your musings on the season. I like to think that if the schools in the Big West had the resources of Pac-10 schools, they'd play a better season than the more prestigious conference did this year.