This should make the blood boil of every athlete who earned an athletic scholarship through hard work and dedication including their parents who agonized with them as they tried to climb the skill-ladder. I hope and pray this hasn't filtered into the ranks of college football but, with 80-90 player rosters plus red-shirt slots there would be room for some dead-weight.................This scandal is really bad.
I think this scandal is applicable to IVY League schools a lot... since there are no athletic scholarships so they look for students that can be on athletic teams for track, wrestling, swimming, lacrosse, cross country, soccer, etc., to enable them to field competitive teams, but also qualify academically.
So in IVY schools a candidate with a GPA and ACT the same as another but looks to be a good soccer player gets the admission, the other does not. They are also reporting that, then, some of these frauds that are not actually good athletes but got into school "this way" then feign injuries once they are in and say that they are unable to compete... sickening.
But let's not feel too sorry for all the athletes that are "real", many of them especially football & basketball do not belong in college, they are spoon fed ridiculously easy or even fake courses , and the very elite are even sometimes paid to be there.