March Madness is playing zero games this year. Conference tournaments are already providing tons of drama. And now the FBI has uncovered yet another scandal involving college athletics. This one, though, includes fake athletes and real celebrities.
The FBI is involved with this issue for the same reason they started investigating pay-for-play schemes: fraud. In this case, however, the fraud includes non-athletes posing as athletes in order to have access to top-tier universities that they would otherwise not have access to due to not meeting academic standards. There were others that paid to help their children cheat on college entrance exams to get into these institutions.