With millions of dollars in merchandising and television contracts at stake, colleges have a lot of money riding on the recruitment, education, and performance—both on and off the field-- of college athletes. Colleges lure the athletes to their school, and make sure they meet the eligibility requirements when there. In order for athletes to be eligible to play in college they must attain a minimum of a 2.0 GPA in 11 designated courses, and earn a …showed first 75 words of 2017 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2017 total…are there for. Colleges use these athletes, young and naïve, to earn more money and win. Thirty-seven percent of scholarship athletes graduate college. The one-thing colleges can promise to athletes, a full scholarship, a free education, they only provide to thirty-seven percent of them. In closing, I feel that it is the institutions, not the athletes who need to be held more responsible for cheating and cover-ups in order to clean up college athletics.