I'm more than likely in the minority here, but I highly doubt pouring equal amounts of BBQ sauce and gasoline on a college football team, then firing it up with a blow torch is going to solve anything. For one thing (outside of some public revenge), what does this accomplish for the victims? For another, how can anyone here say with a straight face that the NCAA should handle things correctly, when history has proven about 40 or 50 dozen times that the dubious governing body can only be expected to the direct opposite?
Nope, if you want to set a precedent, here's what I believe should be done. First off, none of these assholes involved in the administration (president Graham Spanier, vice president Gary Schultz, athletic director Tim Curley for starters) should be allowed to draw a paycheck from Penn State or any other school again in their lifetime.
Joe Paterno's statue on the campus should be pulled down on live television, and on several networks besides ESPN.
And most importantly, a civil lawsuit should be filed on behalf or by the victims to take away every conceivable penny awarded to the college and it's administrators covering the years the abuse went on. This should include (and not be limited to) every God-damned nickel the school made for tv rights to Bowl games, weekly broadcasts, radio programs, scholarships and merchandising. No, money isn't going to restore anything close to comfort, resolve or piece of mind for the abused, but it's one hell of a good start.
And it might serve as a good wake-up call or a refreshing steel-toed work boot to the nuts to administrations that feel that something as astoundingly stupid as pride and vanity over a fucking football team takes higher precedent over the life of any human being.