Central Florida will slink out of its final season in Conference USA ineligible for the postseason in its two premier sports -- football and basketball -- its basketball coach slapped with a show-cause penalty, scholarship reductions in football and men's basketball, monetary fines and vacated seasons. All serious punishments meted out by a clearly more serious NCAA.

Except this isn't about the NCAA and it shouldn't be yet another narrative on how the group in Indianapolis is doing business.

This is about the Knights, blinded by ambition, receiving their due punishment, writes Dana O'Neil.