<p>The athletic recruit board has some scattered reports about Harvard issuing LLs to athletes. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/1363622-2017-commits-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/1363622-2017-commits-3.html</a>. </p>
<p>LLs to athletes makes sense - otherwise those athletes may wind up somewhere else (to schools which will give them LLs, like Princeton).</p>