I am very familiar with the college football recruiting world (was recruited out of highschool, have some friends that played at various colleges around the country). Coaches get a recruiting budget. They give players money from this budget to show recruits a good time in an effort to get them to choose their school. The players take this money and buy alcohol, escorts, hookers, drugs, etc., and then pocket whatever they don't spend. So we can try to pretend that Louisville is some disgusting college without any integrity because they got caught, but the only difference between them and any other major university with a football or basketball team is that they got caught.
Not saying any of this is right, but it happens.