Theoretically, you're right, GAT. Unfortunately for McCormick, football is life in a goldfish bowl - every away fixture would be trial by fire from the home crowd and the opprobrium attaching to him because of the deaths of those boys will never leave him. It is sad; I agree he was the best 'keeper we've had for a while and seemed a genuinely good lad. He made a mistake and he has, to an extent, paid the penalty. In a less visible walk of life, that might have been that but not in the tribal world that is League football.
That's not to say I disagree with your sentiments but only that the reality of the situation would never let it happen.