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Kyle JuszczykVerified account @JuiceCheck44 25m25 minutes agoMore
Couldn't disagree more, Josh. School combined with football teaches you time management; a skill that will get you far in all facets of life
That's right Juice, slap down that petulant spoiled brat. Rosen made some comment about how school and football just don't go together, then cited some crap about Alabama and their SAT scores for football players. Going to find himself out of the first round he keeps that up.
Technically Rosen is right the majority of the athletes who attend college are not because of a degree but because its a way out of the poor life style they grew up in trying to make it to the NFL which not all succeed. Universities need to do more for athletes was the point.
Juice taking the quote out of context.
College football has become so simplified in this age of the spread offense for both sides with guys not even needing to learn protections or coverages. If he can't handle school and football then it speaks volumes as to his personal limitations and laziness especially with all of the support student athletes are given today. The fact that people have not only handled it and thrived doing it for close to a century with more complicated systems and less support in class should be all that's needed to counter his soft minded perception.
I also don't agree with the notion that most college athletes are shooting for the pro's. There are a limited number of players that actually get drafted every year and that is something that most coaches are hammering into these kids. I think his mindset only applies to the top 5% of student athletes that know they have the potential to get drafted. To further this point take into account that there are only 1,696 players in the NFL at any one time and just some 256 getting drafted every year vs 115 schools in Div I football all with an avg of 110 players each. Now add the guys playing on scholarships in Div II and III.
I think you need to read the article bud
" Rosen perfectly and frankly laid out the reality of the "student-athlete" label that the NCAA loves to slap on its players—namely, that it makes no sense. You can be a student, or you can be an athlete, but doing both requires an impossible amount of time, even for someone who loves school, as Rosen says he does. "Human beings don't belong in school with our schedules," Rosen said. "No one in their right mind should have a football player's schedule and go to school."
He still sounds like an entitled prick.
What he's complaining about is not impossible....
http://www.businessinsider.com/college-student-athletes-spend-40-hours-a-week-practicing-2015-1
45 hours, that's the workload an avg athlete in a bcs school puts in...about the same as a student working full time and going to school without the benefit of being a student athlete that gets coddled in schools that make football a priority....and yet thousands upon thousands of kids manage it every semester of every year.