Upon further thought, I believe the NCAA enacted a vacated wins penalty for 2 main reasons.
1) Punishment for the school to put football above child safety. By school, I mean administration and, perhaps the most powerful man at PSU, Paterno.
2) The idea that if there had been a scandal in 1998, when the incidents first became known to the powers that be, perhaps many/some of the football players, who subsequently attended PSU, might've gone somewhere else. The controversy at the time certainly would've disrupted the season(s). Would they have won as many games? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
I think it's mostly the first reason, but I think both might've been considered.
To anyone who doesn't think the penalty is fair, I wonder what your reaction would've been if it had been your child molested.
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