This is a very reasonable take to me, and I've never been a romantic about student-athletes and what college football is and always has been. And, in the grand scheme of things, college football just isn't very important, so I try to keep my disappointment at this affront to the basic innate sense of fairness that most humans have in perspective.
The larger thing that bothers me, however, is the ever-increasing perception throughout American society (and in many other places as well) that if you're not cheating, you're not trying, that might makes right, and that anyone who doesn't cheat or use what might they have solely in service of their own ends is a "sucker". This adds to the mounting pile of evidence that that perception is accurate.
"I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
That time cannot decay
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
This little wild bouquet
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
- Leonard Cohen