We all stupid, dumb ditty dumb?

As a sports related thing I'm doing here I suppose this issue is unavoidable; and I'm actually sort of surprised that I haven't mentioned this yet. But this time, in hopes that people actually do read this, I'm going to offer up an idea without any opinion at all, and ask the readers to analyze and answer...Given the status of college sports, and the dormant status of the minds of a majority of people in our country, what do you think about the hype of College sports versus the value of actual education and learning (this includes the overall idea of learning and being intelligent and its place in culture)?