For the past couple decades, the conversation of college athlete’s and academics has always been controversial. The majority of the people in today’s world argue that colligate athlete’s receive full ride scholarships to prestigious universities without putting in half the work that an academic scholar does without realizing what these athletes have to manage, attend, execute, and overcome in their everyday life. In many aspects, the majority of critics never analyze or even discuss other major benefits these programs athletes bring to the University as a whole. Even though student-athletes are held to a higher expectation, “Studies today seem to be insufficient due to the fact that they have failed to distinguish the influence of sports commitment,
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To make the life of a student athlete a clear understanding, first you must understand the “experience of a student-athlete through their subcultural, commercialization of college sports, and academic influences and how they might influence academic success” (Comeaux 236.) When comparing student athlete’s vs non-athlete’s, they both vary majorly in characteristics regarding their ability, size, revenue, race, and gender. Because of this, student athletes and non-athletes only relate in ine common way. The same way every relocating college student faces and that is the challenge of college adjustment. Student athletes, however, have an increase in demands set by their coach “which create considerable challenges to student life” (Comeaux 237.) In Eddie Comauex journal, he states that due to the coach’s expectations, the program requires a great majority of their player’s time being focused on sports, with travel, team meetings, practices, classes, and their game schedule, athletes on average spend at least forty hours a week on activities related to sports while still having to deal with mental fatigue, physical exhaustion, and nagging injuries that conflict their daily routine. Because of their limited time, it forces these players to spend less …show more content…
Respectively being uneducated on the fact that this future Division I full-ride scholarship athletes must meet set requirements set by the NCAA, they also continuously fail to recognize what these student-athletes bring to a university besides just a sports program. Many coaches “primary interest is to keep the player eligible”. Our society today neglects to realize that the NCAA or National Collegiate Athletic Association, set mandated requirements by every incoming collegiate athlete as well as current collegiate athletes so that not just any athlete can receive a full ride. In order to receive a full ride scholarship and remain eligible, the student-athlete must have “completed 16 core courses in high school and meet a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 in each of their classes” (Pascarella 370.) When analyzing division I student-athletes and their academic success you must look at all factors and understand one thing, that the majority division I athletes on football and basketball scholarships realize that they have a higher financial value in their
To make the life of a student athlete a clear understanding, first you must understand the “experience of a student-athlete through their subcultural, commercialization of college sports, and academic influences and how they might influence academic success” (Comeaux 236.) When comparing student athlete’s vs non-athlete’s, they both vary majorly in characteristics regarding their ability, size, revenue, race, and gender. Because of this, student athletes and non-athletes only relate in ine common way. The same way every relocating college student faces and that is the challenge of college adjustment. Student athletes, however, have an increase in demands set by their coach “which create considerable challenges to student life” (Comeaux 237.) In Eddie Comauex journal, he states that due to the coach’s expectations, the program requires a great majority of their player’s time being focused on sports, with travel, team meetings, practices, classes, and their game schedule, athletes on average spend at least forty hours a week on activities related to sports while still having to deal with mental fatigue, physical exhaustion, and nagging injuries that conflict their daily routine. Because of their limited time, it forces these players to spend less …show more content…
Respectively being uneducated on the fact that this future Division I full-ride scholarship athletes must meet set requirements set by the NCAA, they also continuously fail to recognize what these student-athletes bring to a university besides just a sports program. Many coaches “primary interest is to keep the player eligible”. Our society today neglects to realize that the NCAA or National Collegiate Athletic Association, set mandated requirements by every incoming collegiate athlete as well as current collegiate athletes so that not just any athlete can receive a full ride. In order to receive a full ride scholarship and remain eligible, the student-athlete must have “completed 16 core courses in high school and meet a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 in each of their classes” (Pascarella 370.) When analyzing division I student-athletes and their academic success you must look at all factors and understand one thing, that the majority division I athletes on football and basketball scholarships realize that they have a higher financial value in their