These kids receive enormous benefits already. They get a 200k scholarship to a prestigious college that many of them would have no chance of getting into without athletics, and on top of that they get a stipend for food and housing. Not to mention the chance to show the NFL you are a player for four years, these are not small or insignificant benefits.
Anyone who thinks we should follow FSU and Alabama's lead in trying to sweep everything under the rug should be ashamed of themselves. While this was not a particularly bad incident, if you start doing that you end up with people I would never want to be associated with on the team, people who can rape and steal and beat their girlfriends with impunity. At the end of the day this is a game, a game that I watch for entertainment, I do not want my entertainment to come at the expense of victims. That is why you don't start sweeping things under the rug.