There really aren’t that many sports where you sacrifice your body to achieve a certain level of performance. And I think the academic neglect thing is overblow

There really aren’t that many sports where you sacrifice your body to achieve a certain level of performance. And I think the academic neglect thing is overblown. You probably have college athletes in mind, but it’s useful to keep in mind that what appears to be academic neglect is probably often just non-intellectual athletes doing as well in college as they would have done had they not been athletes.