responsibilities” (Patterson). That is a problem because those athletes do not get the chance to develop fully as an adult. As we see every year there are the athletes that are still in college but take the chances between going professional in their sport or perhaps risking an injury that can potentially hurt there playing time in their sport. According to the article “College Vs. Pros: Should Athletes Leave School Early?” Clary gives us the pros to why athletes should leave college and go straight to their professional career as well as the pros of staying in college and receiving your degree before beginning a professional career. Clary states that, “leaving school for a professional sport allows great athletes to earn a living
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In the article, “How Much is A Degree Worth to College Athletes? Not Much, Kevin Trahan quotes from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette study, “a large number of football players at the University of Pittsburgh, which was not a Top 25 school but was included in the study for its geographic proximity, are enrolled in the administration of justice major. At Oregon, football players are bunched in a social science major, while there is a large percentage of a history major at UCLA. That fits the pattern for "clustering," a term that describes situations in which 25 percent or more of an athletic team are in the same major”. Here we can clearly see athletes are enrolled for majors that are easily abled to get them through the academic machinery. Leaving college many of these athletes are left, “with the lack of a meaningful degree, which it is nearly impossible for many athletes to get a college-level job once they graduate”, Trahan said. Basically athletes are not using their degrees because they are taught on what really a college education can provide for …show more content…
Athletes are left with challenges once they either go pro or even finish college and don’t have the full opportunity on continuing a financial stable life because of what there degree really stands for them. The decision to finish school or play professional sports will affect the athlete and his future family. Students often cannot wait to get out of school because they do not want to deal with the stress school has to offer. However, students do not realize that education can help an individual’s development. Tzu author of “Encouraging Learning” relates “education to the achievement of moral perfection” (Tzu 545). Athletes should take education serious because it to their advantage to be knowledgeable in other professions other than athletics. School is back up plan for the athletes. If they do not have a successful professional athletic career they can always rely on their academic degree to get hem through
In the article, “How Much is A Degree Worth to College Athletes? Not Much, Kevin Trahan quotes from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette study, “a large number of football players at the University of Pittsburgh, which was not a Top 25 school but was included in the study for its geographic proximity, are enrolled in the administration of justice major. At Oregon, football players are bunched in a social science major, while there is a large percentage of a history major at UCLA. That fits the pattern for "clustering," a term that describes situations in which 25 percent or more of an athletic team are in the same major”. Here we can clearly see athletes are enrolled for majors that are easily abled to get them through the academic machinery. Leaving college many of these athletes are left, “with the lack of a meaningful degree, which it is nearly impossible for many athletes to get a college-level job once they graduate”, Trahan said. Basically athletes are not using their degrees because they are taught on what really a college education can provide for …show more content…
Athletes are left with challenges once they either go pro or even finish college and don’t have the full opportunity on continuing a financial stable life because of what there degree really stands for them. The decision to finish school or play professional sports will affect the athlete and his future family. Students often cannot wait to get out of school because they do not want to deal with the stress school has to offer. However, students do not realize that education can help an individual’s development. Tzu author of “Encouraging Learning” relates “education to the achievement of moral perfection” (Tzu 545). Athletes should take education serious because it to their advantage to be knowledgeable in other professions other than athletics. School is back up plan for the athletes. If they do not have a successful professional athletic career they can always rely on their academic degree to get hem through