High School Athletes Case Study

Clemson receives a total of 16, 282 applicants per year, and 63 percent of those applicants are admitted into the university. Around 33 percent of the admitted students enroll at Clemson (“Clemson University”). According to Disalvo and Digeronimo, the chances of getting into a university for athletics are increased by sending videos of highlights of that person playing their sport. Also, the author recommends that the person should visit the college they are interested in both their junior and senior year of high school (Disalvo and Digeronimo 83).

         Underclassmen are leaving the NCAA early to pursue fame and fortune in the NBA. They want fame, money, and glamour that comes with life in the NBA. When you break down college athletics, everyone gets paid but the players. Mike Lupica writes, ÒCollege basketball has been using these kids for years,

When the kids are taught that they actually believe in what the teacher says and instead of focusing on school work and more realistic goals they just focus on becoming athletes. That’s when then they no longer go to school to get proper education, they come to join a sport and try to get scouted.

In today’s society, there are many issues, dilemmas, and scandals that we have to face. After reading Kenneth Jost’s article about college football there is, respectively, many issues in this field. I firmly agree that the Committee of the Coalition of Intercollegiate Athletics, which is an organization that represent roughly half the FBS schools, should search for ways to force college athletes to be admitted into the school before being provided with scholarships to play. Even though everyone loves watching college athletics, the purpose of going to school isn’t to be entertained, it’s an opportunity to better your education. Although many colleges feel like this will decrease their schools win efficiency there are examples that diminish

Athletics are a big attraction to many students when looking at colleges. When college sports programs have success, research done by Pope and Pope show that there is a boost in applications that the colleges receive from students. “Applications [after] a Championship add 7-8 percent, with a big effect in the immediate year and little effect after one year.” It was found that when colleges have winning athletic teams get more applications sent in from all levels of student and not just athletes. This is found true for basketball and football. Not only increase in applications is found but also found after success in football there is a growth in enrollment, this is not found true for basketball (Getz and Siegfried “What Does Intercollegiate Athletics Do…”). “David Schmidly the president of the University of New Mexico said “One of the most effective ways to market your university nationally is to have a really quality athletic program. It helps recruit faculty, students, and donors. It helps with the image of the whole university.” (qtd. in Getz and Siegfried “College Sports: The Mystery of the Zero-Sum Game.”)

In the first place, these students get barely any education while they are playing their sports. They are constantly on the move and never in the classroom to do work or learn anything to get their grades and IQ better. These

that it is crazy. People do not realize how much an athlete actually does for their school. Being a

The opposing view might say, but they are already getting scholarships. They might be getting scholarships but scholarships don't last. They can only pay for a scholarship so much a year. If they want to get more than just a bachelor's degree in college they are not going to have any money to do that because they were spending it on there sport. Scholarships won't last if you want to do decide to get your bachelors degree college. NCAA rules stipulate that schools may award only one-year scholarships. It’s up to the coach to decide whose scholarships get renewed. (The Truth

For the schools that have players who become popular. An athletic scholarship doesn’t cover all

All the expenses that they have to acquire overwhelm many students that attend college. When this occurs, they tend to dropout, or struggle with taking on college courses and working. What is so amazing is that high school athletes think that is they attend college for a year or two, they can go on and make a career on a professional level. They do not understand that if they do go professional, it will not always last. They will eventually have to go to college anyway. So, why not go ahead, get a good education, and have a successful career.

highschool. The scholarships being given out to the students athletes are only given to the best of the best, so they should take the recruiting process serious. Division one colleges are limited to 85 full scholarships each year but other smaller levels of colleges can offer lesser scholarships that are not a full ride, but they will most definitely help him or her throughout the recruiting and scholarship process. A athletic full ride scholarship is hard to come by, one who receives this is provided the 100% of college tuition for free, for their next four years of college. Full-ride scholarships are hard to come by, so there are also partial scholarships where about twenty-five percent of the student athletes tuition is covered. Unfortunately,

Brenau University is a well-known school for its academics and sports. The all-girl university has many sports like soccer, volleyball, cheerleading, swim and cross country. The standards to play in this particular private school are statically observed by the coaches. I ran in cross country but I didn’t qualify for full tuition or maybe I could have if I expanded my options or kept running. I have many classmates that played a sport in high school and didn’t get a scholarship. But why? I wanted to see what it takes to be recruited to a private school by meeting up with an athlete that received a full ride to Brenau University.

to attend classes a certain amount of time and so should the athletes. Whenever athletes miss

It's becoming more and more common that recruiters are finding kids on social media now instead of watching kids play sports.Therefore,coaches want to get away from watching people on the field/court. Recruiters look for students/athletes because they want to see if these students have good character .It could be a bad thing because that coaches are looking for players online now instead of talking to them face to face.

This all amps up the stress and pressure on both young students and parents who are terrified of missing out on college scholarships due to an unwillingness to play the recruitment game in middle school. Gone are the days where children could treat sports as a buffet, having fun casually sampling different ones throughout the year. Now, they are encouraged by parents to specialize early on so they can play competitively year round and excel at their chosen sport. The NCAA found that the number of athletes who committed to a single sport before the age of twelve is on the rise, and this specialization is the number one regret of many college athletes (Potkey). Some parents even hold their kids back a year to gain a physical advantage