Rick was right in regard to what any potential punishment should be about - MONEY, pure and simple. That's what big time college football and basketball are about. Make it hurt enough financially - for the institution and coaches, if culpable - and stuff won't happen nearly as often. Now that could be in the form of fines, loss of income, even loss of games (providing an indirect financial detriment), etc. But the ""take down the banners" nonsense is a bunch of fanboy talk from old men (mostly) trying to live vicariously through young men, and pointing to wins/championships of these youngsters to boost their own pathetic self-worth and low self-esteem. They can't accept that those aren't "our" titles; and that being able to brag more about how many more championships "we" have does not address the issue with the institutions or coaches.
Basically these UK fans need to go buy more beer and potato chips, pull the t-shirt over their gut, slouch down in their old couch and keep yelling at the TV during games about how stupid the coach is for not listening to basketball geniuses like them (after all, they did make the all-tournament team once in the pee-wee league).
