And by the way, my guess is, the attitudes of a lot of faculty members and admissions staff members towards this is not so much genuine substantive concern over the consequences of letting in lesser-credentialed athletes, but horror and disgust over the system that already exists.
To have admissions standards be a "problem" for the DIA serves the same function for these folks as it does for a lot of our fans and a lot of NCAA fans in general, to block out the reality of what college sports is. To say "oh, we're different" and walk briskly along before the stench of the lie reaches your nose.
Power Five football and men's basketball are a total farce pretty much any way you look at it, and are a pretty ugly thing if you choose to look at it that way. But you can self-justify in a way that both reflects reality and doesn't artificially hamstring the whole purpose of the farcical enterprise to begin with.
To have admissions standards be a "problem" for the DIA serves the same function for these folks as it does for a lot of our fans and a lot of NCAA fans in general, to block out the reality of what college sports is. To say "oh, we're different" and walk briskly along before the stench of the lie reaches your nose.
Power Five football and men's basketball are a total farce pretty much any way you look at it, and are a pretty ugly thing if you choose to look at it that way. But you can self-justify in a way that both reflects reality and doesn't artificially hamstring the whole purpose of the farcical enterprise to begin with.