To your point I'm still awaiting to her about the punishment where UNC was found by the NCAA to have passed kids with grades, some of whom never even did any work in the classes (recall the JR can't read chants), for decades at that vaunted school of the celebrated upper crust of academia in their minds ACC.
They got off on a technicality. Since any student could take those classes, the NCAA determined it wasn't an "improper benefit to student-athletes." In the NCAA's mind, that differentiated it from a tutor changing answers on a test for a basketball player, because that is an impermissible benefit specifically for a student-athlete.
Classic case of a school deciding that rule-breaking would probably be worth it even if they were caught. LSU does have some good history in basketball, but obviously they aren't a basketball school. Schools are generally winning to push the envelope with their non-golden goose programs because you don't expect much from them anyway, so you can live with it if the NCAA hammer comes down.
