Why is this news? You’d have to be a dumbass to not know that this is rampant throughout ALL colleges. Duh!
It was rampant in high schools 60 years ago.
One kid I played ball with graduated from high school with 26 ‘D's” and the coach had to plead for those.
He went on to USC on a football scholarship.
They gave him a new Cadillac, an apartment for free, a job he didn't have to show up for, and automatic grades without attending class.
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.