The NCAA's rationale is, "some regular students
also took the fake classes, so it wasn't an exclusive benefit to athletes". So I guess by that reasoning, a booster could give out $1000 handshakes to athletes, and as long as they do the same for a few non-athletes, it's all on the up and up?
When you compare this case to what the Feds dropped a couple weeks ago, it really shows how impotent the NCAA is. Maybe they should just shut down their compliance and enforcement offices and turn those functions over the the government.