There were two students that completed most of the “home work” for athletes.
When he asked them why they were doing it, and so blatantly open about it, they told him that it is “just the way it is here.”
Too many colleges are in it for the sports or the revenue streams.
In the 80s/90s, my cousin worked as an English "Professor" at LSU. The sole reason for her hire was to teach black freshmen football players how to read and write.
As a freshman at UCLA I did have one of those classes that was known as a guaranteed C or better for football players. There were a bunch of them in there.