Well, to be sure, you know as well as I do a lot of those athletes in major colleges performing before the adoring masses are most likely there fraudulently.
I only have to hear some of them talk and look at their tatted up physiques to wonder how they got through high school much less be able to take regular college courses.
Reminds me of a story (might be apocryphal) I heard about Dick Butkus. Supposedly, when he got to U-Illinois he complained about having to read books when he went there to play football.
I'm not saying the jocks are there because they're geniuses. I have seen that, too, even when I went to school. That racket is that they bring in alumnae dollars, which, in turn support the sports programs, with a little skim... As for their grades, well, that's the reason I ended up on the Honor Council, only called on one case, which to the dismay of the poly sci majors, I did better on than they did. I was not called back for a second case.
That isn't saying there aren't those who can make the grades, just that some are questionable at best, in training for the entitled attitude seen so often in the pro sports to which they aspire.