I am not sure it is the Dept of Education's or DOJ's "job" to punish PSU football program.
The DOE can go after PSU for not complying with laws regarding the reciept of federal education funds and the reporting of sexual abuse statistics. Aren't these the laws they are using to procecute the UP & AD?
This - There is also a law in place about having to report crimes committed on campus and failure to do so could cause them to lose there accreditation and the ability for the school to accept federal student loan money.
Seems like they still could do this, no?
My take is the NCAA had to step in and slap down the football program. This was a football issue, no matter how many times they say otherwise. If it were a physics professor they would have turned him in. End of story. The only outfit that can punish the football program is the NCAA. You can't throw a football program in jail. The NCAA has made the PSU football program hundreds of millions, they can expect to take a hit when they protected a serial child molestor. You take the good with the bad with the NCAA.
Civil suits alone won't likely do this because the nutty alumni will just go into fund raising overdrive and pay off the suits. The Catholic church hasn't gone anywhere....