I didn’t say cannot be done, just that it’s really hard. They’re each really hard individually, let alone combined.
OP ask yourself what kind of college experience you want. Know athletes that love playing college sports. Know others that only do it for the scholarship. Know a third group that don’t NEED the money and would rather have a what many consider to be the typical college experience without all the required training, meeting. practice, etc. Really comes down to what you want.