“The alleged scheme focused on getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams, “
What kind of students? What was the goal here?
This is a result of title IX. Colleges are forced to admit into college enough women athletes to match the men’s tea,s. Colleges do this by cancelling men’s programs like swimming and wrestling and creating fake women’s sports like crew. The problem is there aren’t enough college aged women who are interested in crew and there really isn’t a high school pipeline for those oarswomen. You could probably fill the Ivy League with women’s rowers, but every college now has women’s crew as a college sport.