Let's not sugar coat thing and talk about tutors - important athletes have TA's doing their papers and take home tests for them, and that's after being carefully steered into a series of easy courses and degree plans. Lots of the Texas football team is "majoring" in sports management, which has the stink of underwater basket weaving all over it.
A TA at North Carolina blew the whistle on this a couple of years ago - and was predictably labeled a crazy troublemaker by the school, until she sued or such. Then no one quite knew who'd said that, but they didn't mean it and everyone including the NCAA whistled past the graveyard and kept walking.
Just call them ringers and be done with it. It's like the softball team that Mr. Burns hired for the Nuclear Plant contest, when he had Sosa, Maquire, Straw, Bonds, etc. That episode is fun to watch now and check off how many of them were later exposed as dopers.
Last edited: Jun 23, 2021