Not only does he try to further others education, but he tries to prevent them from dropping out as well. LeBron took action after learning that every 26 seconds, a kid drops out from school, making that 7,000 kids dropping out every year. (looktothestars.org) He created a Public Service announcement to address to kids that dropping out of school is very detrimental to your life. LeBron explained how he stayed in school and the commercial “It’s just like the public service announcement says, without the amazing people in my community, I could have easily ended up a statistic. It was my coaches, teachers, friends, and mentors who gave me the support I needed to stay focused.
Some people are just not blessed with athleticism, but those who are blessed with the desire and will to learn and create are the ones of really make a difference in our society. America does need its nerds because without them our society would be one in which football rookie cards would be our common currency. Mr. Fridman argues that the system
Football is its own sport in many was one being its unique championship. “Football remains the only NCAA sport whose championship isn't decided through a playoff system”(Herald, p.1) that is very unique to the sport and some want to keep it because they like to be different. Some believe that the more different they are the better it is. One of the main groups that were against playoffs were the “lords” or owners, of different teams that they are “ defending the 'fairness' of deeply flawed for determining a division 1-A National Champion”(Herald, p.1). They don't care if others say that the way is flawed they still believe that it is fair in some
Reformation of NCAA Policies Living the life of a highly recruited high school athlete is completely different than the life lived by the average teenager. It entails dealing with the connections of multiple university coaches, constantly perfecting the craft of their perspective sport, and finally making that decision to one of the intriguing offers from the multitude of offers received from various colleges. The whole reasoning behind these college coaches to giving out these offers to the high school students is to keep the money rolling in from collegiate sports. Despite all of the revenue that comes from collegiate sports, none of that is ever returned back to the young people who make all of this money. Currently the NCAA policy states
Classes like wood shop, auto mechanics, home economics, typing, etc. are more and more frequently not being offered at high schools any more. These classes offer certain skill sets that would help people obtain a good job right out of high school, and also might offer some insight to what kind of field you want to work in which in the long run will help you obtain a “good” job. Even if you go to college and find a career choice that excites you, you can still end up below the poverty line because the American economy is flawed. Lars Eighner’s essay “On Dumpster Diving” details a core aspect of the three-year period when the author and his dog were homeless.
Of course many athletes receive scholarships, but young financially underprivileged students can't always balance school, athletics, and a job. Because of this, college athletes should be paid for playing for their college to firstly, help them financially accommodate their expensive lifestyles, give them the money they played hard to earn, carry on their academics and finally to allow for stress free recuperation
It will discuss how it was unfair to students that were entering college for sports gave minorities an unfair advantage to all, not just non-minorities. This paper will provide examples how the affirmative-action was not working to help everyone obtain a higher education. Many elite universities in the United States have delved into the issue of affirmative-action and the role affirmative action plays during the admission stage. Many universities automatically give minorities, African Americans and Hispanics, up to 230 points on a 1600 point SAT scale. Those entering for sports reasons obtain 200 admission points.
Even if they had good players they’d probably be bought out by the richer teams because their contracts would expire and they also had the money to do so. But the vicious cycle continues for the poorer teams because it is extremely hard for them to get good players that they want because they cant afford them. The only way to get out of this mess is to get continuous amounts of high draft picks and that could take a decade for a team to be able to contend! This is what happened with the Tampa Bay Rays. After they finished last in their division every year of their existence the timing of high draft picks for a decade created a good team.
This quote was beneficial during his coaching years to help discipline his players. The team had a reputation for winning so many games; but, he wanted to teach his players that building their character is more important than being seen as winners. It is merely what everyone else sees them as only. Mr. Wooden worries more about his students’ character than their reputation because character repeats champions not reputation.
They are expected to win games first and then study later. This current system is setting the athletes up for failure. A very small percentage of college athletes will make it professionally. In fact, Worsnop’s writes in College Sports, “The facts are 4.5 million young men play high school football, 39,000 will play college ball, 1,500 will make the professional recruitment list, 500 will be drafted, but less than 100 will make it professionally” (Par. 37).