"Not every coach gets the clemency Chaney wants"

Hayes lost his cool and fired a punch at a Clemson linebacker.

Chaney lost his cool and sent a hit man into a basketball game to knock bodies flying, later all but boasting of it.

Clemson's Charlie Bauman merely jogged back on the field.

A Saint Joseph's player named John Bryant had his arm broken. He will miss the rest of his senior season. He will miss Senior Day. He will miss the last rite of a graduating player, to go down shooting in a conference or NCAA or NIT tournament.
No one will ever be able to give that back to Bryant, if they apologize from now until Easter.

By the next morning, Woody Hayes was fired.

John Chaney was originally suspended for three games. Monday, after that decision was widely denounced as too weak, he announced he would not participate in the Atlantic 10 tournament.

Neither, of course, will John Bryant.

RTWT here.

It does seem that there is less media outrage about Chaney's behavior than there was at Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes.

UPDATE: The Portly Paleo makes the same point:

For too long Cheney has been excused by supporters because he has been such a good coach, and because he has has worked so hard with men from troubled backgrounds. And yet, if Bob Knight had ordered such tactics in a game, is there any doubt that he would have been immediately called on to resign?