What, what? Who is defending anything? I'm talking about the public/media/NCAA reaction to the MSU situation Given the severity of what transpired at Happy Valley and how minimal the punishment, it takes either blind bias or huge balls to use their punishment as some sort of barometer for being tough (even used in just comparison to MSU rather than taken at face value). We're talking about the NCAA here, though, which uses some combination of a dart board and Magic 8 Ball to choose its punishments. NCAA set the bar, not me