I'm a senior who just finished eligibility. I'll say it again: This is not just a NCAA issue it is an issue with higher education in general in the United States. Sure, money for facilities, travel, equipment, etc would still have to come from somewhere, but the costs would be hugely reduced.
Non-athletes would no longer resent athletes for special treatment and scholarships that, when you think about it, don't really have anything to do with getting an education.Īthletes would no longer have to deal with the retort, "Well, the university is paying for your education! That's your compensation," because they'd be getting that money regardless of whether they are competing.įootball, basketball, and to a lesser extent baseball/soccer/etc would no longer have to fund other program's scholarships.
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If education was made affordable or gasp free at the point of delivery (like it is in every other developed nation) this would be a completely different discussion. The problem goes beyond the NCAA and athletics in general it's a problem with the fundamental way that we go about higher education in the United States. I didn't really notice any struggles to get my work done in relation to how intense our workouts were. Just staying on top of the work and taking advantage of the small 30 or 45 minute gaps in time between classes can be very valuable when you know you will bogged with a lot of work. It helped living with other athletes/teammates because they were on similar schedules. Some weeks it was a pretty tight schedule depending on tests/projects/meets but the majority of the time I was done with all my work with a couple hours to play video games or watch tv. I'd leave the gym and head to dinner with my team where we'd eat and talk and relax for about an hour and a half before heading back to the dorms where we had around 4 hours before needing to go to bed. Practice normally ran about 2 hours, an additional hour for lifting days, and I always did about another hour of work with the athletic trainer for injury prevention. I'd use this time to just relax or get a little work done. After my last class I normally had between 45 minutes and at most about 2 hours to get ready for practice. when I had breaks between classes I'd either grab lunch or work on some homework or simply relax. Wake up get ready for the day go to class. I was a D3 athlete in track and field, not quite comparable to a D1 Football player but I can't imagine not being able to get everything done. Time management is more difficult as an athlete, but it gets overemphasized because it's uncomfortable talking about the bigger problem. If you took away the support structure that exists for big time NCAA athletes, and had them attend school like normal students with normal time constraints, most of them would fail out within a year. But these universities admit them anyways, and then do everything in their power to ensure that they stay eligible, from pushing them towards bullshit classes with sympathetic professors, to paying tutors to essentially do homework and online quizzes for them. They couldn't read or write at a level that would've been acceptable for junior high students at the public schools I attended. Many of the guys I played with and later tutored were functionally illiterate.
That's obviously not true in every instance, for every sport, at every school, but in the revenue-generating sports at the big time schools it is absolutely the rule and not the exception. Big time schools manipulate their admissions process to enroll student athletes who flat out are not smart enough to succeed academically at the schools they attend. Having been a college athlete, and later mentored/tutored athletes while in law school, I can attest to the fact that for many of these kids it's more than just that they're not prepared. Reddit Rules/FAQ Announcements Filter Discord Twitter Social Media Poll/Pick 'Em Team Guide Awards Merchandise Amazon Referrals Select Flair Submit Game Thread
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