When anyone brings suspicion and scrutiny to the world of high school athletics, the atmosphere is tarnished. Now, when anyone wins a state title, the first thing we'll be looking for is who shouldn't be on the team, or how the players ended up there. There will be a measure of suspicion of everyone because of Langdon.
A one-year suspension cannot give our state's athletics their integrity back. It takes a harsher sentence to prove that schools shouldn't take chances like Langdon did. Without that sentence, the fans will regard the penalty for recruiting as handslapping. That's not what we needed.