I highly doubt the NCAA would go the death penalty route, even if the facts end up coming out to support it. The damage it did to SMU, it is something to be used only in the most absolute, 100% severest cases. Hell, I'd almost go to say that the NCAA would do anything it could but give the death penalty if it could avoid it.. Plus, even with the NCAA starting to crack down on schools, I just can't see them giving such a giant money maker, for both the Big Ten and the NCAA, the death penalty.