As much as I know there exists a plethora of more pertinent issues pressing on our nation, as a student who went to one of the named schools (and rejected by some of the others) I have a bit of a passing interest in it.
We discussed on another thread that the media has ignored the Title IX angle almost entirely. Many of these schools derive multi-million dollar annual cash flow from their NCAA standing in basketball and football. They are sort of forced to funnel this money into programs such as “ladies crew” and “women’s pole vaulting” even though these programs generate little to no income and little to no wider audience. What I am getting at is that the guy at the center of this fraud probably knew that some of these sports had few qualified applicants in the first place, and thus were more easy to exploit. They had the slots to fill. You can’t bribe your way in as the #1 state champ at the 200 meter sprint, or as a top running back or point guard. You will be an obvious fraud. But how many people pole vault?
Wow, I have no doubt you are right, but you made me think of the transgenders competing with hardly any pushback. Is it possibly the Title IX vacuum you described causing administrators, staff and even the media to soft pedal that issue to some degree?