Is that the point you are trying to make? We're Conservatives. That means the Not Stupids. Try blowing smoke up some other asses.
USC's athletic programs do not provide players with no-show jobs and free cars. The NCAA doesn't like us, and they watch us like hawks, ready to pounce if a college official so much as provides an athlete a free ride to the LA Public Library. But I along with many fans wish USC would, indeed, buy some talent in the form of a winning coach in the tradition of Howard Jones, John McKay and Pete Carroll.
You and I are probably in agreement deploring the drift of Division 1A collegiate athletics away from amateurism. This trend includes game times that are now set according to the whims of broadcast companies, games played on weekdays, which interfere with the college's educational mission, the removal of thousands of seats in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to make way for luxury boxes, and selling the naming rights of the Coliseum to an air transport company.
But USC is still the nation's bowl champion, and has been for nearly a century--and we gained that status through athletic prowess.