I've been on sports forums where this scandal has been discussed. Like a few others on that forum, I expressed amazement that anybody should be shocked as this had been going on for many decades previously at all colleges that offered athletic scholarships. I further stated that it would be a miracle for most of the athletes in the major college football and basketball programs to be able to matriculate like other students. I said that it's a wonder how many of them managed to get out of grade school.
Naturally, I upset a number of lambs who were outraged that I would assume "graduates" of many inner city high schools did not have the proper academic credentials to succeed in college. And of course, I was called a racist.
Incidentally, one of my sisters was a math tutor at her college, and she used to laugh about the (mostly white) dumb jocks she had to help.
I was in our rural local community college library helping my daughter ( age 11) with her Saxon Math lesson. Her older brother and sister ( ages 12 and 13) were taking college math courses at the time and we were using the time efficiently as we waited for their class to end.
A young black man asked if I was a tutor and could I help him with a few math problems. The problems were simple 2 digit divisions. This young man was a basketball player. His academic performance was soooooo lacking that he couldn't qualify for a 4 year school. His goal was to improve his academics enough at this community college so that he could apply for a team at a 4 year school.
Amazingly, this young man was a high school graduate of an inner city high school. The entire system is corrupt.