But should they back bill him the scholarship after they modified the standards to benefit from his football skills?
I don't have strong feelings about this. Going in to West Point he should have known and understood that it's not like other colleges, and there are some pretty serious consequences for not meeting standards.
Also, most reporters are notoriously bad at reporting on the military -- I suspect there's more to the story that we aren't reading about. The Army certainly does dumb or counter-productive things all the time, but I'm not sure they're wrong in this case.