College Athlete ---Job Or Fun ??

Busy and loving it

Just had a discussion today with a young lady who starts at SS for one of the D1 programs in the state and is carrying a 3.85 GPA as a premed student into her senior year. She was talking about one of her ex-teammates who is on campus finishing her degree this semester after completing her eligibility last spring. The friend thought it would be fun to be a 'normal college student' but, in fact, she's bored to death. Point being most successful student athletes are simply "wired differently" than the the 'average student'. In fact, if a kid yearns to be an 'average student' then she wasn't cut out for college athletics (at least not at the D1 level) to begin with. There's nothing the matter with that, just facts.

 

....nice post dukepal.

also, to reply to this thread in general, ......look folks, you can call it a job or call it fun.
you can apply the benefits of study halls, preferential treatment in class choices, medical help, tutor help, traveling to awesome places, and quite frankly...being somewhat reveered as a student athlete pretty much everywhere you go. Signing autographs for the kids, being connected to all of the other athletes, like eating supper in the "place" where all the athletes get to eat.......etc.

college athletics requires a bigtime committment of time by a student, and with all the perks an athlete gets, they still have to pony up in the class room and get on with what going to college is really all about.

.....uuhhhh, oh the job thing, it was job for me just to get out of the bed before lunchtime.

moral of this post, you can play ball and work around class schedules, or you can get a waitress job and work around your class schedules.....

......but never sign up for a class that starts at 8:00 am.

fishcounselor

 

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Fish you are the man! You have away of making every post an adventure! Nice job

 

It seems to me it is sort of like the difference in a job and a profession. A job is something you get up every morning and do to pay the bills. A profession is something you enjoy (if you are lucky like me you actually love it) and you are constantly trying to:learn more, improve, talk with other professionals to gain advice, etc. For a college student-athlete to really excell I think it must be more along the lines of a profession. I don't see how any student-athlete will excell on the field or in the classroom if they don't apply the "professional" role. Just another opinion.

 

.....Excellent post Coach!

 

There is an old saying that goes something like "Get a job/profession that you truly love and you will not work a day in your life"...pretty much sums it up.

 

Motto for all college athletes: "You Gotta Love It" ... Got me through those college football three a days preseason. Also got me through winter conditioning, spring practice, and summer workouts when we weren't in season.

 

...thanks big joe. any help to our kids about the real gig that a student-athlete goes through, both cool stuff and the not cool stuff, that you will offer to us from your experience would be valuable brother!

Tell it like it is.

Thanks, Fish