This shows the corruption of the NCAA. I have a nephew that is really smart and a really good soccer player. He was looking for a scholarship at a school known for engineering. The coaches tried to steer him away from engineering because the time commitment of soccer and an engineering degree. Turns out that at an engineering school, the soccer team had 2 engineer majors. The kicker, this wasn't even a D1 school!.
So much for the argument that student athletes should not complain or ask for wages because of the "free education".
Back in the 90s, I knew a professor from University of West Virginia. He said the athletes majored in “Safety”, or something like that. That major is still around. I’m wondering if the “homeland security” major and the “parks and rec” major also house a few athletes.
I’m willing to bet there are more women than football players in the African American Studies department at many schools, but I guess schools create that pipeline for the athletes where they can.
You might be right but it would be possible to investigate UNC's Black Studies Program and level charges without condemning all Black Studies programs.
To me, this helps illustrate the hypocrisy of the NCAA. The NCAA grandstands and gets involved in the Penn State debacle and ignores the UNC scandal. The former generated no advantage for the athletic programs while the latter did. Without these programs, it is highly unlikely that UNC could have kept many of its star athletes eligible. In the PSU case, the NCAA got involved when it had no business there and in the UNC case, it refuses to get involved when it should.