Colleges make a ton of money off of those athletes. Did you know that Michigan Stadium holds over 100,000 people. they fill it one time and they pay for the entire football team, OK maybe three times. Plus the revenues from advertising and Championship games not to mention merchandise. What is more likely to sell at your school, a USC hooded sweatshirt or a North Central Michigan Community College hooded sweatshirt. No contest, nation wide USC would win by far.

Same goes with family connection. Alumni donate THOUSANDS to universities every year. The university doesn’t want to jeopardize that, so it’s more cost effective to give the kids a free ride.

Is it totally fair, no. Sorry but welcome to the real world.

The first poster is right too… There’s ways to get into a university, you just REALLY have to look.

The only way to counter it is to get involved with clubs/sports in your school or just do a lot of community service.

But I am sure you will make it good.

Remember sport schollarships are only there to appease a certain sector of society. When school end ; so do they.