I really don’t have a problem with this. Major College athletics is about money, not grades.
Major college athletics is about major colleges. As Bill Gates proved, people don't have to attend college to make money. But it is destructive to the society to weaken and remove the traditional standards that made America successful in the first place.
There is nothing wrong, and never was anything wrong, with receiving a free university education, food, and housing in return for playing amateur baseball, football, or basketball for 4 years. It is ridiculous how much this basic social compact is becoming corrupted for immediate gratification and greed.
The corruption of our system of education is in progress. The US used to have the best system of education in the world. That won't be the case much longer. Our primary schools have already been dumbed down by the teachers unions. The universities are being slowly destroyed by people who don't grasp the difference between money and higher education, not to mention malevolent foreign actors corrupting our campuses. It is an unfolding tragedy, and hopefully people are waking up to this.
What does all this have to do with college athletics? Young people are being taught to envy other people's money, hate traditional values, and follow false idols. College athletics, like many other traditional activities in the culture, are being sucked into the greater struggle between instant gratification and methodical construction of solid life and family habits. This is just another stumble down the rabbit hole. But a lot of people don't see it coming because it is a slippery slope.