Pros And Cons Of Recruiting Student Athletes

Lacrosse has been around since the 1400’s, and is coming back today as one of the U.S.’s most popular sports.

For example, the class of 2021 has already received verbal commits at schools capable of winning a national championship. These schools include the University of Oklahoma, Florida State University, and Auburn University. These programs are highly competitive and usually finish their recruiting three to four years in advance. Their early finish allows them to jump on the best players and promote their school to the young crowd. While this may be a very strategic and smart move by the colleges, young athletes are being pressured to choose a school at the age of 13 through 15. Most of these athletes don't hold a driver's license, but have already made the largest decision of their young

Being recruited as a senior in high school for any sport seems like an opportunity of a lifetime. The athlete thinks they are going to college debt free because of the

         The NBA has seen many different players come and go throughout its 50 years of existence. In the last 15 years, there has been a boom of underclassmen leaving college early to enter the NBA draft. The last NBA draft in June, the top ten picks alone were underclassmen(Sports Illustrated, 264). Many more underclassmen are entering the NBA this year. The typical college career for the basketball players is playing until your junior year, then going pro. The NBA and the NCAA must do something in order to keep these young players in college.

Resolved: NCAA student athletes ought to be recognized as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Lacrosse can keep players healthy because of the cardio aspect of it and will help players stay in shape by playing it. Lacrosse also teaches commitment and discipline because players must work together with their teammates all over and across the field. Lacrosse is a sport for everyone because in lacrosse the game is not just about physicality, size, or strength, the game is about stick skills, athleticism, speed, the amount of effort you put in to win and more.

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

Throughout my life, sports have always been my escape. If i’m mad about something that happened in school, I am able to go play sports and get lost in them. For me lacrosse is a huge deal. Something about it makes me so happy. I have so many accomplishments from starting Lacrosse that I am so grateful for. Lacrosse has made an impact on not just my life, but also my families. Throughout the years of playing lacrosse I have developed skills, friends, and memories that I wouldn’t trade for the world.

The most these students should be getting out of playing in college is the pride, gratification and competition

Players can’t wait for to go to the league and have multi-million dollar deal, but graduating from college is not even in their minds. Player rush and get their freshman year of on playing sports in college over with. The reason why they rush to get it over with is because they want to get paid fast instead of developing their skill to play at high level so that they can play at the next level. Fact is only two percent of college athletes in the country will make it to the pros(0).

Top programs participate in recruiting wars. Some athletes are forced to choose between three or four different schools. The intensity increases when a hidden gem is involved. Programs dream of finding the no name capable of leading them to glory. It doesn't much more potentially unknown than a small town recruit. Making them the perfect player for any program.

Lacrosse is a growing sport, in the past few years lacrosse has become more well known. Others say that it shouldn’t be in the olympics because it isn't an international sport. It’s not played all over the world , but according to Indian Country Today “In the U.S., no sport has grown faster at the high school level over the last 10 years than any other sport.” as you can see this is why it should be in the summer olympics along with the other sports in the summer olympics. As a matter of fact it was in the 1908 olympics.

In college basketball players are entitled to entering the draft after their freshman year in college because of the one and done rule. NCAA does not believe they should entitled because they want the players to get a degree to secure their future. Also they are too immature for the things that come with being in the NBA. They are not fully prepared or developed for the NBA. I agree with the NCAA that they should increase the minimum of years for a college basketball player to enter the draft.

It has been statistically proven that out of all the Division 1 sports teams, only 45% of them are actually allowed to graduate. Colleges need to focus on the “athletic-students” now. They need to get the “athletic-students”, who are only in college for the sports, to become “student-athletes”, who are students that are good at sports but have school as the number one priority. Although, most people are only looking at the graduation rates, which are low and need improvement, but they don’t show the entire story. They only show how many people graduate, not all the people that got an education. This doesn’t mean that all the athletes got an education in college. Colleges need to change and enforce a few things to make sure that their athletes are understanding the soul purpose on college, an EDUCATION! They could bench freshman until they can prove that they are ready for the responsibility of going to college and playing sports. Colleges should even make the people that are failing classes, or skipping lessons and lectures without a good reason ride the bench for a game. That should teach them to take their college education more seriously. There are some colleges that are doing things different, and they are

College was a dream that was made possible by playing more than one sport. College is an easy transition for these athletes because it’s not that much different from their high school lifestyle. The routine is easier for them, they can manage their time with homework, practices and a social life at a stress free cost because of their time management skills. In the early stages of an athlete’s recruitment, many coaches are drawn to them because of their multi-sport abilities. Making friends comes easy to those athletes and they have the ability to become close to all of your new teammates and with the coaching staff. Athletes can go into this season ready to play, healthy body at hand, and fully confident in their success in this year. This was all possible because they played multiple sports. It laid down the path to their dream. And like everyone else they did everything possible to help them achieve