Student Athletes Flaws

The world of The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a mad one. Its an association filled with disallusions and failed hopes and dreams that never blossomed into realities. The NCAA feeds off of studnt athletes that crave a ticket to stardom and or success, so that they can steal all of that away from them and gain it for themselves;therefore,failing all of them. Student athletes do their best to do it all. They become measuring weights by balancing sports, family, friends and academics; consequently the weight is npt balanced because sports is the heaviest one of all and is highly prioritized with student athletes. Sports have become the triumph and downfall to many student athletes. This happens especially when the NCAA decides to play the role of a helping hand to many student athletes. Students become easily susceptible to the NCAA especially through their life experience of being a student athlete and being recruited by other schools at a young age. This is seen in Hoop Dreams when William and Arthur are spotted playing basketball in their neighborhoods and are soon given a chance to play at St Josephs. The audience soon sees throughout the movie that both athletes are just players in a game of chess. The school is willing to sacrifice some of their chess pieces to save their honary king; sadly, Arthur was just the regular chess piece that was sacrificed and cut by St Josephs because he was not a king or
Colleges arent trying to get the smarteat athletes they are trying to get the best so if they are doing poorly in academics it wont matter. This leads student athletes to be set up for failure due to the lack of experience and knowledge of more advanced classes that these colleges are placing student athletes