Are sports organizations now supposed to administer judicial punishments? I can understand them being concerned with image, but you don’t do your image any good by retaining such a player, even if you’ve punished him.
What are we supposed to allow? Fourteen different levels of punishment, from your local neighborhood group, the local charity foundations, the city council, etc?
Either the court decides on something, or everyone else should just shut up. If I were the judge....I’d probably order Rice to miss the entire season, while doing time at home rather than the local jail (waste of money). Missing a season would likely start to really get the interest of players and their need to make capital.