<p>I wasn’t going to comment on this page, but all this crap is irritating me. Most of you have no idea about college athletics and yet you still feel the need to give your two cents worth. The mother of the college player was right that athletes work a lot on their sport, but they agree to that when they sign in. Now personally, I was recruited for football at several small schools(Furman, PC, The Citadel) but I know that Id be going here for football and I want to have a real college life. And fyi, the athletes love the attention everyone lavishes on them. I know plenty of college athletes, Jad Dean(he was a famous kicker who was all-acc 3 years running) and Armanti Edwards(Appalachian State QB who beat #5 Michigan last year and has won 2 national championships.) They love the attention. And you’re right, they are taken advantage of. But what can you expect when you’re not only getting into colleges you don’t have the grades or test scores for, you’re getting full rides. For example, my friend Sam Montgomery(#2 defensive end recruit in the nation) is getting a full ride to LSU. He has a 2.8 or so gpa and an 1100 SAT. Now how many nonathletes could get into LSU with those scores? So don’t give me that bull about athletes being taken advantage of. They are going to schools for free that they could not dream of going to without their sport. They chose to be manipulated.</p>