Unfortunately, most universities have gone this way en masse, across all disciplines.
Many students in universities today should never have gotten out of high school. So I guess the reasoning is that they can’t make use of real teachers anyway, so this pap is good enough.
I guess and if it’s a state school the taxpayers are paying for it!
Actually, if it’s a state school and the school has a sports rep, the taxpayers are paying for entertainment not higher education. Many taxpayers (Fans!) are fine with that!