Basketball is a Way to Not Get an Education

I think it is wrong that college athletes who can't read or write are being payed to shoot a basketball. Everyone should be able to read and write at a college level since they are there. Athletes should not get special treatment just because they have a certain skill. The colleges are to blame because some of them encourage these actions, and set wrong examples for other schools. The NCAA should be reinforcing their rules, and make decisions that help the students for what is to come if they don't make it into the NBA. The fact that no one collects data shows that they might have something to hide, and don't want to be investigated. Other people work for a degree that is helpful in real life, but these athletes do not gain any real life skills. The only skill that they are gaining is how to play basketball.