With regard to your last paragraph. I believe it is the amount of money that is the corrupting influence. It's not college athletics per se but rather the mas

With regard to your last paragraph. I believe it is the amount of money that is the corrupting influence. It's not college athletics per se but rather the massive amount of money spent on certain sports that generates problems. The extracurricular activities you mentioned aren't bad or detrimental to the institution's purported goal of education because there's no money corrupting those activities.