When Sammy's bullying of one of the team's "nerds" leads to Sammy's victim being rendered comatose, the entire athletic program finds itself cut off from the students who do all of the homework for the jocks. While Thad tries desperately to salvage the working relationship between the jocks and the nerds in order to keep the new Dean from exposing the widespread academic fraud, Alex must prepare a presentation for a paper that his "nerd" wrote for him sight-unseen.