The Pros And Cons Of Student Athletes

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Some student athletes say they do not have enough time to make it to class. According to many that have opinions from both sides of the issue have come up with a possible solution. They said it depends on the person if they want to push to receive an education or not. There are some who have been able to do both. Even though student athletes do not have time to attend classes they need to get an education to have something to fall back on if sports does not work out, and they need to have a certain GPA to be eligible to play.
Many of the athlete’s that are playing in the college football now are not as smart as people would think they would be going to some of the best colleges in the country. According to an article from Colorado University “most freshman football players have a average ACT score 945 which is not the score they need to get into that premier college that they are in...” (Admissions, Buffzone). They have this thing that is called special admissions many of top athletes use to get into good colleges. Which is basically getting them for their athletic ability instead of what they can do in the classroom. School 's lower their requirements because they want the top athletes to play for their sports program.
Think of it like this athletes coming from
They say if they can go to school and be an athlete it will help them when they get out of college and they have their career with splitting things up that they have to do. For college athletes it sounds like to make everything work it is all about working out your time and try to fix everything in their busy day, which can be hard with basically having a job because they practice eight hours a day. But after all it all should work out because when they signed their scholarship they knew they were gonna have to work twice as hard if they go and play sports and still have to go to

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