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Re: TV's Article on Holdren
Actually, the facts - that being statistics and the like - tend to suggest that the average student admitted to SDSU actually has a harder time adjusting to how much energy college coarses actually require. For the most part, athletes are actually at somewhat of an advantage over the average student. Coaches are constantly monitoring your grades to make sure you're eligible, all freshman and poorly (academic) performing athletes are required to attend study hall 2 times a week, and all professors are required to sign a sheet to be sent to the coach stating the athlete is actually making it to their class and not sleeping in his/her dorm room or playing playstation instead. That says nothing about the requirement that an athlete actually maintain eligility to perform in the sport they came to college to participate in. The graduation rate of student-athletes is usually better than the average student partially for these reasons.
It's obviously a bigger issue than 4 sentences of explanation, but I would say that any athlete who comes to SDSU expecting anything other than a full committment to academics as well as athletics somehow transposed the show "The Program" in their head with the actual conversations with the SDSU coaches. I'm fairly confident about that. The culture shock of a student athlete regarding classwork is n different or more difficult than any other student. I would actually argue that it is often harder for a non-athlete who doesn't constantly have someone over his/her shoulder monitoring their classwork and who has to juggle a part-time job and fight the urge to be lazy and skip class.
How about that for a completely off-subject rambling? Hey, how about that Holdren kid!
Originally posted by joeboo22
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It's obviously a bigger issue than 4 sentences of explanation, but I would say that any athlete who comes to SDSU expecting anything other than a full committment to academics as well as athletics somehow transposed the show "The Program" in their head with the actual conversations with the SDSU coaches. I'm fairly confident about that. The culture shock of a student athlete regarding classwork is n different or more difficult than any other student. I would actually argue that it is often harder for a non-athlete who doesn't constantly have someone over his/her shoulder monitoring their classwork and who has to juggle a part-time job and fight the urge to be lazy and skip class.
How about that for a completely off-subject rambling? Hey, how about that Holdren kid!
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