The school says its aim is to compete at the highest level of college football and basketball. It has set that expectation, an expectation its fans have bought into and, despite its rather modest recent achievements — read: failures — in reaching those goals, continue to buy into, all as the school goes on pursuing and selling that notion.
In some cases, it’s because they are human. In others, it’s because they never intended to follow the code.
That creates an environment few at the school are willing to speak about in open, honest terms, one that stirs hypocrisy, hidden in those noble goals that remain lofty, even as the hypocrisy rages on.