This two decades of University of North Carolina academic fraud scandal already is being broomed away in favor of Top 25 and College Football Playoff debates, and ESPN “College GameDay” and Heisman Trophy hype.

As game broadcasters and coaches say following the latest arrest of a starter, it’s just another “distraction.”

An alleged primary perpetrator, philosophy professor Jan Boxill, served as UNC’s Chair of Faculty. Her specialty? Ethics. She has written and lectured on morality, right vs. wrong. She also was an athletic department academic advisor.

And instead of game-fixing, UNC’s own investigator has accused her of grades-fixing. Which is worse?

But understand: UNC operated mere inches beyond the sustained norm of many-to-most Division I colleges. On the day a full-scholarship basketball or football recruit enters school, his time, focus and fanny belong to the athletic department, not the school part of the school. A legit education is optional, a matter of accident.

In 2012, Ohio State QB Cardale Jones captured it on Twitter: “Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to play SCHOOL …”

Three realities often are predetermined:

1) Practice comes first. Whether the “student-athlete” takes the semester minimum of three courses (nine credits) or five courses (15-16 credits in order to stay on path to graduate from a four-year school in four years), no class is to interfere with team practice schedules.

And with football, the same goes for summer school.

2) Pom-pom profs. Athletes are funneled to instructors or professors known to be big fans eager to “cooperate” — in UNC’s case, be co-opted — to ensure academic eligibility.

Such academicians can be rewarded with game tickets, invitations to bowl games and tournaments, and access to in-game hospitality suites and pregame party tents.

3) Ease of subject matter. Scholarship athletes are assigned to classes that legit students throw in as easy electives. When you see or hear of a sophomore or red-shirt freshman majoring in “General Studies,” well, in poker that’s known as “a tell.”

Many recruits are handed their academic curricula — where to show up and when. Those classes typically have a greater proportion of scholarship athletes than other classes. And the athletes, regardless of whether they attend, get first crack before the classes are filled.

Again, such systemic academic, financial and ethical fraud is epidemic. But we’re not going to hear about it from Brent Musburger, Gus Johnson, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Chris Fowler, Clark Kellogg, et. al. And if you’re not part of the solution …

Sorry season ensures Jets will not be flexed

Act now! Don’t delay! Operators are standing by! If you were to purchase a Jets PSL for the rest of this season, you likely will be guaranteed that no 2014 home game will be TV-flexed to prime time!

That’s the beauty of spending a fortune for tickets and PSLs to 1-7 teams — games played at logical hours!

Speaking of flexing, WFAN’s Mike Francesa recently took a call from a fellow who complained about his team losing afternoon games to flexing. Francesa dismissed the guy. Flex-scheduling, he said, doesn’t even start until Week 11!

But then someone off-air obviously got to Sitting Bull. “Pssst, Your Highness: Flexing now starts in Week 5.” Back on air, Francesa did that dishonest double-talk tap dance of his. He pretended to have known that it’s now Week 5, but that as far as he is concerned, flexing begins in Week 11.

Tuesday, Fran-say-so interviewed Colts QB Andrew Luck. “We’re talking with Andrew Luck,” he said. “As you know, we talk about him on this show.” Yes, on at least two occasions Handsome Mike, in a cruel irrelevancy, had stressed that Luck is an “ugly guy.”

Did he tell Luck that? Whatta you think?

Thursday, Francesa’s specialty: Dooming big home favorites. The Knicks, 11-point underdogs in Cleveland, had no shot; they would be crushed. Monday, he authoritatively claimed the same about Washington playing that night at the Cowboys.

He also ridiculed that Chevy rep’s stage-frightened, Ralph Kramden-like presentation of the World Series MVP to Madison Bumgarner. The poor man needed a hug. Francesa, career creep and schoolyard bully, mocked him.

ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd (his weekdays show also airs on SiriusXM) has an honest streak that one day will get him fired for sedition.

Last week he was reading an ad for a physical therapy school, one promising an exciting career, including, “well, it says here,” said Cowherd, “ ‘working with A-list celebrities.’ ”

Cowherd again interrupted what he was reading with, “Well, that probably won’t happen right away.”

Readers to the rescue

Readers Digest, Readers’ Indigestion:

Jim Burns: Why — in that Chevy commercial featuring Little League pitching sensation, and girl, Mo’ne Davis — did they have the kid glaring, scowling at the camera?

Chris Dellecese: Postgame questions that begin with “How important was it for you (or your team) to have …” must cease! Is the answer ever going to be, “Not important”?

Jim Kozlowski: Anyone find it ironic that with all that facial hair among the Royals and Giants, a World Series sponsor was Gillette?

David Greenfield on why, unlike Yankee Stadium, every seat behind the backstop in Kansas City was occupied throughout the postseason: “No great restaurants near home plate.”

David Oniffrey: In Game 7, FOX’s Joe Buck announced that Bruce Bochy is now the first manager in history to win a World Series replay challenge. Come on, Casey Stengel, in all those World Series, never did?

Len Geller: ESPN’s annual “Top 500 Current NBA Players” (seriously) rates Josh Huestis ahead of Cameron Bairstow. There is no way Josh Huestis should be rated higher than Cameron Bairstow! That’s crazy! One question: Who are Josh Huestis and Cameron Bairstow?

Rutgers and Jets alum Ray Lucas, now an SNY football analyst, is another who should stay off Twitter. During Bills-Jets: including “4 turnovers and we are only down 7.” Also, “Run the fn Football!!!” And, “I’m not feeling good anymore!! You have to be fn kidding me!!!”

Stat of the Week: Monday, with Minnesota leading 2-0, Rangers radio voice Kenny Albert noted the Wild thus far have outscored opponents 21-6, yet are 0-for-23 on their power play. That was wild.

ESPN Graphic: “Royals Eric Hosmer first with a World Series RBI on birthday since 1991.” Instead of suspending employees, ESPN now sentences them to such research.