I feel like the author was really trying to point at how terribly colleges handle sexual assault investigations, but I'm not completely sure this setup was the best way to do that. (Especially since there was a kind of linger storyline from the previous book that maybe could have served that end better.) But, I do find this series compulsively readable and this book was no different. 
 Also: That's not how fill-ins in D1 sports work, my god. Google, authors, Google--it's your friend.