re: Hypothetical about your team over the next 5 years (which would you rather)

I'm not sure this is even a valid dilemma. Option 2, easily. Since you make no mention of games being vacated during the successful seasons, I assume that means the scandal doesn't reflect on those. In which case, I'd think most people would take a string of legitimate 10 win seasons with an equal amount of downtime in their wake. It's not like football will stop after the sanctions. You still get to go watch the games and if you lose more than usual, well, you'd be losing 4-5 games every year if you took option 1. At least with option 2, you have an excuse besides "We suck as a program."