Scandals revolving around the education of student-athletes in college are generally awful. They cheapen the idea of college athletics, they often end up punishing innocent student-athletes, and they reinforce stereotypes that only encourage exactly the kind of structures that create these scandals in the first place.
But that doesn’t make all public outcry about such scandals right, or fair. There are a few particular talking points that get recycled around the country that pretend to take the moral high road, but really just disguise some ugly sentiments. One of those is “universities are robbing athletes of their education,” which is fairly obviously wrong after even a second of thought; universities are big and full of legitimate educational opportunities for people who want to take them.