Not anything anyone should be shocked about, but this "Stars Cheating The Admission Process" thing has legs to it...

At first glance, this story really doesn't surprise anybody -- major players, including at least two Hollywood actresses, arrested today on admissions fraud at many colleges, including USC, UCLA, and the Ivy League.

The first problem -- and why you're seeing it more in the sports arena right now -- is because of the fact that one of the avenues that middlemen paid to get unfit kids of rich people and/or celebrities into colleges which will make all parties look good is the use of scholarships for lesser sports for people who never played them.

One major example is legendary USC water polo coach Jovan Vavic, credited with bringing quality water polo athletes to US institutions.  The problem is, he also brought one of the charged (but unnamed in the Deadspin article on the subject) rich people an unfit daughter to USC by false representation -- one of the many tricks the middlemen used was actually Photoshopping the kid's head onto a picture of an athlete's body!

Vavic and the USC associate athletic director overseeing him were both fired today.

But here's the rub...  I think the major lead has been buried again.

This is another of the cases where superstars and big money are getting nailed for practices no one should be materially surprised they are doing -- it's either been known information or believed hush-hush.

Are we looking at another flake off here -- toward one of two possible ends?

Either:

1) The complete dismantling of every sacred cow we have in this country.

or

2) The codification of that those "better than you" can do to you whatever they want to, without penalty or retribution.

As I've said for a number of these, stay tuned.