US college sports is ridiculous. Basically every year hundreds of thousands of poorer kids stake their future on sports, mere hundreds get through to college l

US college sports is ridiculous. Basically every year hundreds of thousands of poorer kids stake their future on sports, mere hundreds get through to college level where they're just as illiterate and keep training to get into major leagues instead of learning (less than 10% do), and "normal" students pay for it all. Outcome: hundreds of thousands of illiterate kids who didn't get to college level, hundreds of illiterate college graduates, increased college debt for the rest.