> but someone who spends a lot of time mastering a sport (and is gifted at it) isn’t that different from someone gifted at math and working at it. Except in th

> but someone who spends a lot of time mastering a sport (and is gifted at it) isn’t that different from someone gifted at math and working at it. Except in the stuff that actually matters in the context of going to school -- your schoolwork. > I feel like HN may disagree, but not all athletes are 2.0 GPA students Yeah it's not all of them but you might want to take a gander at football/basketball players at the P5 level. There are a huge number of them that are, shall we say, not exactly college material. The schools shove them in basket weaving majors and assign an army of tutors to keep them academically eligible.