Mike Krzyzewski and Kevin White should resign their posts at Duke for harboring knowledge for almost one full year that Rasheed Sulaimon had been accused of sexually assaulting two women in two separate incidents.

How does that sound?

Compare that to “Roy Williams should resign despite repeatedly saying that he had no knowledge of his players taking classes that were mis-taught by a secretary in the AFAM department.”

So far, no one is saying the former since the revelations about Sulaimon became public in Monday’s Duke Chronicle.

So far, plenty of people – including certain faculty members – have said that Williams should step down because he “should have” known.

Hear Art Chansky’s Daily Sports Commentaries Here

Wonder what the News & Observer will do with the Duke story. Probably nothing, like it did with Lance Thomas taking an NCAA-illegal loan of more than $67,000 for jewelry while he was playing for the 2010 national champion Blue Devils.

The N&O (and all other media outlets) cannot use the NC Public Records Act to pry information from private Duke. The media has castigated (if not nearly castrated) UNC for four years through accessing its own internal memos.

At two Duke retreats during the 2013-14 school year with at least 50 students present at each retreat, the women said Sulaimon (who was dismissed without any details from the Duke basketball program in late January) sexually assaulted them. Read the entire Duke Chronicle story here for details on how the accusations went from a former affiliate of Duke Basketball to an anonymous intern to an administrative assistant to the coaching staff and athletic director.

The lack of due process aside, it looks bad that Krzyzewski and his staff, White and at least one other Duke administrator have known about the allegations by the two women students since a year ago.

Neither woman filed a formal complaint or charge with the university or the Durham police department, they said, out of fear of reprisal from the Duke fan base. That was a mistake that will go a long way toward undermining their accusations unless they step forward immediately or more information is revealed in the internal investigation that Duke will surely hold.

At Carolina, the incessant reportage on the academic-athletic scandal by mostly one media outlet has kept the university on the wrong side of the headlines for more than four years. Besides having to comply with Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by the media, UNC has continued to hurt itself by giving the public and NCAA more material with independent studies like the Wainstein Report, which may have answered some questions but raised twice as many more.

So while Williams, who was exonerated as not complicit in every report, has spent this season fending off questions about whether he will retire, resign or be fired, Duke can and probably will stonewall the Sulaimon allegations until nobody cares anymore. And without constant prodding, the public has a very short memory.

But in the end, which is more important? Whether two women say they were sexually assaulted at Duke or whether there were 3,100 enrollments in a bunch of classes over 17 years that were offered and sanctioned by the university but gave out some ridiculously high grades for the work done?

Sexual assault in this country has become a red-hot point to where due process has been (and probably should be) compromised for the safety of potential victims. It is not exactly guilty until proven innocent, but women in harm’s way need to be protected from alleged predators, whether star athletes or not.

The claim that consensual relations occurred should not keep an immediate investigation from commencing. Schools should err on the side of facing possible lawsuits to protect the safety of their students. And with the millions Duke paid out to the wronged lacrosse players,  that isn’t much of a gamble.

That is why the gap between Krzyzewski and White finding out and the dismissal of Sulaimon from the Duke basketball program is so troubling. With sexual assault cases becoming more public on campuses across the country, accused students should be suspended indefinitely while a complete investigation can begin and be completed in the fastest possible duration.

“Nothing happened after months and months of talking about [the sexual assault allegations],” the Duke Basketball affiliate, who has remained anonymous, told the Chronicle. “The university administration knew. Kevin White knew. . .”