Athletes

I think that if colleges started accepting students to their school just based on athletic talent is disgusting.  The whole purpose on going to college is to better your education so that someday you can get a good job.  If students are going to a college based on athletics then they are just taking up spots that they do not truly deserve.  These spots should be given to people with good grades, who have worked long and hard to get into the college they want to go to.  In high school there are always rules, along the line that a certain GPA or set of grades should be met in order to participate in sports or to stay on the team.  Why should this change when entering college.  If we start letting people into college based on just sports than we miss the whole point of college and college loses some of its importance in life.  If we let people into to college who do not deserve to go to that college then we hurt them.  These people will have horrible grades and will have noting to fall back on if their sports career fails.  If we let them cheat in college then we are taking away the importance of education and, in a way, insulting the students who are smart and work hard.  If someone who did not do sports cheated then they would be reprimanded or expelled for their actions.  But athletes would not suffer consequences because they are more important on the field then the class room.  If this does become a trend, accept students based on sports, than what is the point for students who do not play sports?  How fair is it that they are denied an education just because they do not play football? And if this does happen then people who go to Harvard, Brown, or Yale will not be there because they are smart or are gifted, but just because they know how to throw a football very well.