When news of the sports scandal at the University of Miami started spreading Wednesday, I just wasn’t feeling it. It seemed odd, given the unprecedented size and scope of the allegations.

Between 2002 and 2010, a single booster, according to an incredibly exhaustive investigation by Yahoo Sports, apparently gave thousands of impermissible benefits from money to sex to as many as seventy three different football and basketball players.

But so many colleges have bent the rules in the great academic act of winning meaningless football and basketball games that it was tough for me to muster any excitement. Improper conduct has occurred far too many times in the past.

It seemed bound to happen too many times in the future, given that college coaches and college players are opportunists, liars, loyal to no one but their own careers and their own pockets, sneaky, duplicitous, morally autistic and clinically narcissistic in equal proportion to the ego that requires them to succeed.