Equal Punishment?

Did anyone else hear about the altercation between the Baylor Lady Bears' freshman basketball star, Brittney Griner and Texas Tech's Jordan Barncastle. I heard about it on ESPN this morning. After Barncastle fouled Griner during the game, Griner punched her breaking her nose. Griner was ejected for the rest of the current game and has to sit out the next game as punishment for her acton's. During the post game press conference, Griner said,"I let my emotions get the best of me," and basically went on to say she would never do it again. The Lady Bears' coach, Kim Mulkey gave Griner an additional one game suspension.

Is a 2 game suspension really a harsh enough punishment for Griner's actions? Dan Beebe, the Big 12 Commissioner, seems to think so. He stated, "I have accepted Baylor's action and commend athletics director Ian McCaw and head coach Kim Mulkey for taking a strong stance to support good sportsmanship." I personally don't believe that the punishment was harsh enough, especially after what happened last college football season to an Oregon player in a similar situation.

At the end of the season opening game between the Oregon Ducks and the Boise State Broncos LeGarrette Blount, an Oregon player, punched Byron Hout, on of the Boise State players, in the jaw. Hout provoked the incident by taunting Blount after Boise State had won the game. In a press conference after the game Blount basically gave the same apology that Griner gave yesterday. Oregon's athletic director and coach decided to suspend Blount for the remainder of the season. Their decision was upheld by the NCAA ending the senior running back's college football career, a very harsh punishment.

These two incidents, although very similar, were handled very differently. Their punishments were definitely not equal, but were either of the punishments fair?