Does Howard forfeit his pay for the five regular season games for which he is suspended? Not that that a forfeiture such as that would make this sanction sufficient, I think he should have been dismissed, but I am curious about the full ramifications of this penalty. It strikes me that the UofM is trying to make this penalty look harsh, even though it is not "harsh" in the least, in the hopes that the conference will not go further.
To all of the posters ( mostly elsewhere) who parrot "well, what about what this other guy or that other guy did?" I would say this. When I was growing up and I did something wrong, my dad would ask me about it and I would tell him what happened. In those cases where I was clearly in the wrong, even in part, his reply to me would be "that's an explanation, but not an excuse." Appropriate punishment would follow. There is no excuse for what Howard did on a college basketball court.