I am on a Notre Dame forum and several of the posters think there is nothing wrong with any of this.
I ask them if keeping your word means anything and they all said no it does not unless it is in writing.
Then I ask what a letter of intent is and they shrug.
Not surprisingly, they all want Notre Dame to ease up on admissions and academics in order to win.
What we are seeing is not win at all costs; frankly the outcome of games no longer matters as much as how much money each program can rake in.
I hate it; but a lot of this can be laid at the door of the NCAA; one of the most incompetent and corrupt organizations ever.