Although one of my closest college friends was a halfback, he was also a EE major with a 3.5 GPA (real GPA, not a lib arts marshmallow automatic number).
However, even he admitted that a good many of his fellow jocks were dumber than a Democrat governor or major.
The SAT is essentially an IQ test. It correlates very well with future success. Why the hell do we not disengage sports with academics and let the jocks compete as they wish for future team positions? Associating them with a college (well, colleges of a few decades ago) is silly.
Exactly.
However, the SAT is less totally an IQ test than it used to be (and has been dumbed down to go with dumbed down ed in general), which is why, for example, Mensa no longer accepts it for admission.