Dumb Jock Stereotypes

When participation in a sport in high school, it may interfere with class work, meaning an athlete may have to leave class early in order to participate in a game or tournament. With doing so, it is up to the student to get their work done. They have to make it up on their own time in order to make up what they missed in class. This teaches students time management and motivates students to try their best in order to make up work they missed. All coaches should take into consideration that if a student does not have the grades, then the athlete may not participate in competition or practice. Even this rule applies to the team’s best athlete, grade ineligibility applies to everyone. When it comes to high school, the sport itself generates motivation to keep the student on top of things and wanting to thrive for greatness in academics and athletics as well (“Merkel,”). All students should know that grades come before athletics. This will make student athletes aware of the minimum GPA that will be needed to be maintained in order to participate in athletics (“The Benefits of Participating in Sports”). Consequently, it forces students to learn

That assumption does not fit meat all; I study on the way to and from games to earn that grade. There were many late nights in high school when I would get home from an away game and still have plenty of homework to get done, and I would spend many hours after late games doing homework or just studying. I spent many hours after practice, on the way to game and on the way home from games studying just so I can make that grade that I strived for. I believe that being an athlete really helped me want to succeed on my class work, having that desire to want to be the best and have great success. The title “dumb jock” is starting to be redefined in this generation. Many jocks have higher grade point averages than regular students that do not participate in sports. The average graduation success rate for student athletes that began college in the year 2003 was 79%. This rate has continually been the same for the past two years and continues to be the highest graduation success rate in division I history. NCAA President Mark Emmert stated that “The data continues to erase the perception of the so called “dumb jock”.

Academic success is important for both high school and college athletes. To be eligible to participate, athletes must maintain a certain GPA. Student athletes that don’t make school a priority, not only miss out on playing time, but also fail to prepare themselves for the next step in their life. For high school athletes, that means prepare for college while for college athlete, it means preparing to enter the workforce. Although, both high school and

Moreover, college athletes have shown a poor academic success rate in past few years, in brief. Their academic performances were significantly low due to the distraction caused by athletic programs. Athletics are not only a distraction for athletes, but also for institutions which are holding these athletic programs. “The low graduation rates among athletics, particularly in sports like football and basketball, are alarming, although there is strong evidence that this problem is endemic to the entire academic enterprise” (“College”). Average outcome GPA of an athlete is way lower than that of a normal student in general. Missing classes regularly, missing assignments, and missing exams have been the reasons for these poor academic performance rates. Daily practices and tournaments are the reason for them to miss their academics. Another side of this argument is that athletes are given unfair advantages in academics unlike other students. They were given excessive grade changes and extra points to maintain their athletic eligibility. This situation degrades the quality of academic programs and it debases

Around eight million high school students participate in athletics within the United States, and more than 480,000 will progress to compete as NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) athletes during college. However, a study from ESPN found that male basketball and football players at a major university who were deemed criminal suspects were either not prosecuted, had charges dropped, or never faced charges at all– 56 percent of the time. These players were treated better than others and therefore have an advantage over them, thus is preferential treatment. Many coaches and athletic administrators believe that athletes are treated equally compared to their peers, but that is not true. Athletes receive preferential treatment by receiving higher grades in school along with

In reality, though, this is not the case. Many athletes, although not “required”, feel as though it is necessary to double or even triple the amount of time spent training and practicing because if they did not, they may not be able to keep their starting position or their amount of playing time on the team (Pope, Justin). Not only do the amount of hours determine their place on the team, but they can also negatively affect their studies.

Imagine that you are a full-time college athlete; your daily routine would entail an early wake up and a practice. After your morning practice, you have to go your classes for the day. Then, since you are crunched for time and do not have much time in the class room while on the road, you have a tutoring session. Lastly, you have another practice and a weight lifting session that could end at 10 o’clock or later at times. Players also have to work hard on their own time to keep their spot in the lineup. Athletes follow this schedule the whole year. With all of an athletes’ time being put toward their sports and studies, they do not have time to hold even a

Which brings about another issue: stress. Imagine what athletes face…. They are constantly juggling between school work and practice. Author of “Should College Athletes Get Paid?” says many athletes “practice upwards of 60 hours a week”. How in the world are those students expected to maintain a steady average?

The analysis of the data in this study showed that there was a statistically significant difference in the grade point average of high school junior student-athletes when compared to non-athletes. During their participation in an athletic season, the mean GPA of the athletes was 3.11 and the standard deviation was .73, when the athletes were not participating in an athletic season, the mean GPA was 3.20 and the standard deviation was .90.

There are these ongoing stereotypes that student athletes are “dumb,” “lazy,” and “privileged.” It’s understandable that people believe these stereotypes, news magazines and reports are always talking about how athletes are “coddled” and “cheat” their way to success. Though it is nowhere near true for the majority of student athletes, a select few situations encourage this negative categorization of us, thus putting student athletes under even more pressure to perform. Student athletes are constantly misjudged and the assumptions are affecting us.

“The basketball coach stormed into the university president office and demanded a raise right then and there. Please protested the college president, you already make more than the entire history department. Yeah, maybe so, but you don’t know what I have to put up with, the coach blustered look. He went out into the hall and grabbed a jock who was jogging down the hallway. Run over to my office and see if im there, he ordered.

Sometimes we are faced with the situation of not being able to use every source that we encounter for a variety of reasons. When reading the topic of this week's blog, I took a step back to reflect on my past works. My first essay I felt was thoroughly complete and only lacked some needed editing, besides that it was complete. In my last essay for the class E110 my topic was based on the dumb jock stereotype. It wasn’t very difficult to find sources on my topic. The research paper opened a whole new door for me, all the information that I have found from my sources truly enlightened me even more on my topic. As I researched this topic I realized that I wandered onto different paths such as racism or the disadvantages that athletes face. Eeven

“ When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.” was said by Nick Saban. This is reminiscent of the hard times students athletes face. That sports don't help keep your grades up with these three reasons. First, a student could be failing all their tests and get a hundred percent on homework and still get to play. Second, due to sports, athletes may have to skip school which could cause them to get behind in their schoolwork. The third reason is a classmates would have to put

Despite the many stereotypes that are connected with being a student athlete, student athletes in general are held to much higher standards by their institutions. Before a prospective student athlete even enters college, they are made fully aware of the academic standings and requirements of the college they choose. Although the academic requirements vary from college to college, the standards are still held high for all student athletes. The transition into college can be exceptionally difficult especially for the

First of all the authors Mark et al illustrated in their article about how are the Athlete students being treated negatively in the academic field. Article, we praise the authors for the 538 athlete students were survey and asked about how they filet from the faculty and non athlete students. 33% of the student’s reported that they had been treated very badly by the professors. In addition, according to the students athletes that they are feeling that they have low intelligence than other.