Without mentioning names, I know first hand of some reprobates that have played for ND unde Willingham and Weis.
I know about the incident to which you are probably referring. No organization is perfect, not even ND - but, ND (and many of the teams that aren't perennial BSC favorites) have far fewer problems than a Ohio State or some of the SEC teams.
Moreover, ND graduates FAR more players than Ohio State could ever dream about graduating, to say nothing of the SEC teams. And, to give credit where credit is do, Carrol has done a good job of improving graduation rates at USC.
“Without mentioning names, I know first hand of some reprobates that have played for ND under Willingham and Weis.”
I’m sure that there are a few reprobates that ND admits. However, it just takes too many of them to build a top college football team. The top state U’s will let any ham sandwich into the school. My sister-in-law was an English professor at Oklahoma for several years. The writing ability, or lack thereof, of many of their players was horrendous. Bob Stoops is a good coach, but if he can’t get these types of students into the school he will not win. No matter where he is. It is much easier to build a national championship basketball team, because you need less borderline academic, ahem, student athletes.