You are incorrect in your statement that they did not break NCAA rules Grizz. 6.0.1 of the charter is the start, but there are plenty of other things there to. There will be a death penalty, you can count on it.
The President of the NCAA, Mark Emmert, said this week to PBS, "I have never seen anything as egregious as this in terms of just overall conduct and behavior inside a university and hope to never see it again"
The smart money would be for Penn State to shut there own football program down. That would show they were serious about the issues at hand.