Sound Slide project

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Final project

Life of a college athlete

THIS IS A perfect example of a college student athlete and the extra stuff he has to go through with his daughter.

Be careful who you recieve gifts from

This has been a topic that has came a few times in the past few years because college athletes recieved gifts from people and they didn't think there was a problem with recieving gifts from those people. The Ohio State scandal was the latest incident that we all know of. That incident I believe was blown way out of proportion. They thought everything they were doing was legal and would not affect their eligibility with trading material for tattoos. But they got into trouble because they recieved money for a camp and they were not suppose to recieve money. This video shows how the program has covered up or tried to cover up things.

Having a child while in school and playing a sport

This is a very close topic to me because I have teammates who are like my brothers and deal with this specific subject. One of them struggle with seeing their child and another visits as much as he can because the baby is right in Cleveland. But I asked them both about if its easy to adjust to having a baby that is theirs and they have to take care of whats theirs. My roommate is the one who really struggles with seeing his child due to distance. I asked them if it has affected their play on the football field and as I observed it hasn't affected them very much but they do sometimes miss practices because their baby is ill and things like that but they have not missed a lot. My teammates/brothers are really brave and it basically just showed and taught me that whatever decision you make you have to be accountable for them.

Public image

As an athlete on any level you have a certain image that you have to portray to the public because one thing you don't want is your name in the news or getting back to your coach reporting that you have done something that is going to get you in big trouble. This video talks about who should be in trouble when the athlete gets in trouble. I believe the coaches should because when they recruit they should check the kids background and see if he caused any trouble when he was younger. But coaches don't look into that kind of stuff but they should. The reason they don't because they are worried about their damn jobs! It sounds absurd but its true. Half the time these coaches don't care about the players they just want to win and get all the accolades that the specific team is recieving.

Injuries

Injuries happen in every sport and it can affect some people's career depending on how serious the injury is. If you get injured it is mandatory that you go to the training room as much as you can so you can show that you are working on getting better. I know plenty of people who got injured and was never able tp play football ever again. But do to NCAA rules there scholarship is valid for 4 years. So what they do at Mercyhurst the injured film practice and do other things to make it seem like they are doing something for their scholarship.

Time Management

Being A college Student Athlete Time management is the number one thing you need to worry about. The reason I say this is because if you don't manage your time wisely you could really get caught off guard with everything. So let me help you on how you could be a better student athlete.  There are really 3 main steps to help all college athletes and I learned from my coach last year during the football season.

3 MAIN STEPS

1) Student Planner- The student planner helps you get all your classes in the time slots they are held. Also if you have practice and anything else you an put those specific things in the time its being held. Then when you are done doing that you should look at your shedule and see if you can manage the schedule you have. If not then try to ask your advisor if she can try to help you schedule your classes so you could have enough rest time because if not it will catch up to you.

2) Use your academic support- The academic support which are your academic advisors, also tutors  for any subject. They make things easy for you because they understand the hardwork and struggle it takes to be a successful student. But as far as being a student athlete some of the advisors hae no clue all of the hardwork, struggle, and stress us athletes go through.

3) Being accountable for yourself- This is the number 1 step that can take you a long way throughout your college career. If you do your work things will be easy on you but also have a good relationship with your teachers because they can make or break your college career. You don't want a teacher to mess up your life. That's why you need to be accountable for everything you do in your college career and don't be afraid to ask for help.

Should college athletes be paid?

There has been a lot of talk going around about college athletes being paid. I personally believe as a college athlete myself we should be paid. The main reason is because our names are being put out there representing the university as for Division 1 schools players jersey's are being sold and the universities are making money off of us. As long as there is college sports they use the players names to sell products. That is not fair to the players because what are they getting in return? Its kind of like we do all the work and play as hard as we can to get the school money. It is frustrating because this is very true and they are trying to work something out with this situation but they don't know how they should repay us back.

Study Hall

Every one may wonder what is study hall? It is a structured period in the day when us athletes who have lower then a 3.0 GPA go to a study room as a group and do homework and school related things. At Mercyhurst on the football team we are required 6 hours a week of study hall. We go monday, tuesday, and wednesday every week. Each day of study hall there is a coach there to make sure we are doing our work and also there to get us help on whatever we need help in no matter what subject we are having the problem with. This ties into the ELIGIBILITY. No matter what if your GPA does not meet the requirement then you could be in study hall for all the years you are in college.

Traveling to road games

As you may know every team travels to away games. Each sport has different days when they travel to games and also each sport travels a different amount of times. Like for example Division 1 Basketball. They have games on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So when division 1 basketball travels they Use a Private Jet for their team and stay in top of the line Hotels. But don't think they dont get any school work done because they have tutors on the road that travel with them and make sure each one of the players get their work done. As far as football on the Division 2 level all of our games are on Saturdays there might be a few which are on thursdays but everything else is saturdays. We leave on fridays depending on how far our games are we leave early on friday or if its close we leave like around 6pm. We always stay in top of the line hotels and the food is great. Due to it being on a friday wedont have tutors to make sure our work is done because we come back to school directly after the games on saturday. But overall the traveling process is a great experience because you can go places that you may never have seen before.

Eligibility

There is a certain GPA (Grade Point Average) for an athlete to have to be eligible to play there specific sport. The GPA that is to be met is a 2.0 for every athlete to be able play on their sports team. I personally got into some trouble this past season. I did not meet the requirements needed to play this past football season. My GPA did not meet the requirements and I did not have enough credits to be eligible for the season.
That was one of the most disturbing times as an athlete who has been playing this game since I was 8 years old. I could not stand to go to any games that my team played or even stand to watch them on tv because I knew I should have been out there playing.
As I experienced that trouble I realized that No athlete should ever have to go through that situation because it is frustrating.