As you might expect, many of the course assignments that the support staff emailed to players' professors had not been written by those athletes. The report cites an internal investigation that checked the metadata of the documents handed in, and found that "the 'Author' and 'Last edited by author' field was attributed to someone other than the student-athlete." This stuff presumably goes on at most programs, and it's tough to get too worked up—neither these athletes nor their programs believed they were in school for any reason other than basketball—but there are two things worth noting: