Intercollegiate Athletics Vs. Academics: Article Analysis
Intercollegiate Athletics vs. Academics: The student-athlete or the athlete-student
Christopher Saffici and Robert Pellegrino
The Sport Journal. 15.1 (Annual 2012)
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2012 United States Sports Academy http://www.thesportjournal.org/general.asp This article is about the priorities student-athletes have, most of the athletes don’t care about school, they think they can make it by just being a good athlete and some recruited athletes are not prepared for the extreme college work and extracurricular activities the NCAA is asked them to do. I chose this article because I like to think for the athletes. I know the sport is what you are here for, but you have to work hard as well in your academics to get your life balanced.
Most of the athletes don’t go to …show more content…
The reason why I chose this article was because many athletes don’t have the time that normal students have, athletes spend from 30 to 40 hours per week on their sport, which is physically and mentally exhausted, according to (Smith, 2011) in the article any work over 40 hours is considered a full time job, leaving behind their study hours and their social life. This is why some coaches require their athletes to
major on the “easy” stuff, so that they have still time to focus on their sport and have a chance to compete. Some professors don’t understand the work athletes have to do and most of the times they don’t even care about it.
Collegiate athletes are a lot of money for every university, there is an estimate to be a sixty billion dollar industry, and for even the bigger conference coaches is a lot more.Being a college athlete is not actually easy; some of the rules that the NCAA manages are hard to keep. NCAA rules claim student-athletes their need to be in an amateur status, this means they have to do good in their grades and by also
Christopher Saffici and Robert Pellegrino
The Sport Journal. 15.1 (Annual 2012)
Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2012 United States Sports Academy http://www.thesportjournal.org/general.asp This article is about the priorities student-athletes have, most of the athletes don’t care about school, they think they can make it by just being a good athlete and some recruited athletes are not prepared for the extreme college work and extracurricular activities the NCAA is asked them to do. I chose this article because I like to think for the athletes. I know the sport is what you are here for, but you have to work hard as well in your academics to get your life balanced.
Most of the athletes don’t go to …show more content…
The reason why I chose this article was because many athletes don’t have the time that normal students have, athletes spend from 30 to 40 hours per week on their sport, which is physically and mentally exhausted, according to (Smith, 2011) in the article any work over 40 hours is considered a full time job, leaving behind their study hours and their social life. This is why some coaches require their athletes to
major on the “easy” stuff, so that they have still time to focus on their sport and have a chance to compete. Some professors don’t understand the work athletes have to do and most of the times they don’t even care about it.
Collegiate athletes are a lot of money for every university, there is an estimate to be a sixty billion dollar industry, and for even the bigger conference coaches is a lot more.Being a college athlete is not actually easy; some of the rules that the NCAA manages are hard to keep. NCAA rules claim student-athletes their need to be in an amateur status, this means they have to do good in their grades and by also