College Athlete Stereotypes

The truth about all of this is college athletes and high school athletes are different than each other. A college athlete will most likely have some of the best grades in his class because if he/she has bad grades they will get kicked off their team and if he/she has a scholarship than that athlete will lose the scholarship they were given and will not be able to pay for college, so a college athlete has more to lose if they do not keep up in school. A high school athlete on the other hand has less to lose when it comes to school. If the athlete does bad in school than they just might get kicked off the sport they are playing, but most likely the jock will be more willing to not care about school as much as a college athlete. According to Science …show more content…
If a stereotype is still alive then there probably still people in that group that actually live up to the stereotype. In sports most athletes have really good grades and are respectful, but there is always going to be a few jocks in that group that slack off in school and are disrespectful to authority figures. These disrespectful jocks think they are cool and think that they can do anything because they are all big and macho. Since the athletes who mind their own business and have good grades do not get noticed, the ones who do not try in school and are annoying are the ones who get noticed by the school. All that these jocks do are try to intimidate other people so they feel superior and nobody does anything about it, so the jocks will just keep bothering other people. The majority of athletes are intelligent people and have good grades, but it is just that small group of jocks that makes the stereotype come to …show more content…
We have guys that I have played with on our team that are legitimate geniuses. They are conducting thousands of calculations per second”. He continues on with the interview, he had played with many players that have genius thinking because they make split second reaction decisions which cannot be measured on a simple IQ test. He has joined a special group of people with the best IQ’s in the world, but cannot say anything about it because he had promised his dad. When Peter was a kid he hardly played football because he was not big enough to start, but one summer he grew. He had grow to be six four and was two hundred and sixty four pounds over one summer in high school. So he put one hundred percent of himself into football and the CFL team he plays for is going to pay full tuition for a university in the United States. During a game Peter had his knee folded and was out for a long time, but is working his way back to play football again next season. Peter is a living example that jocks are not dumb, in fact they will put more effort into school than a person who does not play any sports because he is working to keep doing what he loves to