Scandals in college football don't much concern me because college football doesn't much concern me, and many of the college football scandals derive from the attempt of both colleges and the NCAA to pretend that college athletics are not about big business.

The way the top administration of Penn State dealt with allegations that a powerful assistant coach was sexually abusing young boys is not a football scandal. It goes far beyond a sports program, and is illustrative of institutional problems permeating societies that go far beyond "institutions of higher learning."