American College sports exist chiefly to populate the professional leagues. Different schools spout different pieties about how their aim to educate and develop fine young men to take their place in the world, but the fact of the matter is if they find a prospect who can play nose tackle or point guard, the college finds a course to suit the student, rather than try and shoehorn him into Metaphysical Philosophy of the Middle Ages, or somesuch.
This practice has now reached its zenith in the University of Georgia's Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball. Click here to take the final year exam.