The Wrong Idea
"(Today) You have a society where every black kid in the country thinks the only way to be successful is through athletics," said Charles Barkley to Sports Illustrated. Therefore, these kids think that the only way to go to college is by being good at a sport. What they do when they get to college is the real question. The past is a good place to see exactly what college student athletes have accomplished.A study was done on the graduation rates of athletes in college. Immediately in this study, black male athletes were spotlighted. Between the years of 1991 and 1994, only seven division one colleges graduated all of their black male basketball players. There were 47 division one colleges that graduated zero black male basketball players in this four year span. They are on what is called the "zero percent" list. The reasons for not graduating a single black player are unpublished. One of them might have been too much pressure from coaches. Another possible reason is that the players didn't care
Many division one universities in the past three decades have focused too much on athletics before academics. Many youth, primarily black, think that college is the minor league level for professional sports. College is a stepping-stone for athletics, but even more importantly a stepping-stone for academics and life. The rules have become stricter for high school athletes to be eligible for college sports. The minimum required score on the SAT's has been raised from 700 to 820. This forced college-recruiting coaches to select athletes who work hard in the classroom as well as in their sporting venue. But is this enough? The athletic director at Fordham University, Frank Mclaughlin, said that "you're only as good as your dean of admissions allows you to be, which is as good as your president allows him to be." This quote means who the administrators that are more lenient about academic requirements give coaches a larger pool of athletes to choose from. Many universities are turning it around. Schools such as Univ
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