The athletic department is culpable for allowing arguable the most disgusting scandal in NCAA history to happen under its watch.
The way you hold an entire athletic accountable is punitive financial penalties, not a changing of the guard.
The mechanism to do that is post season bans and reductions in scholarships, short of the death penalty (which i really thought should have been brought back)
If the players are hurt by this, they had a free ticket to transfer with no penalty.
If the students are hurt by this, finish your semester and GTFO.
if the staff outside the AD are hurt by this, its a free country, go work somewhere else.
In any just world, the Penn State athletic department deserved every minute of that sanction and then some. Lifting the ban is disgusting. Its in insult to the victims in this tragedy and college athletics as a whole.