If how would you like to be required to do nothing at all and go to school for free? That's called paying for it yourself.
I am not being condescending to the sports programs that don't get the full rides or the perks, for I am NOT talking in reference to them.
I did more community service for NU than your whole team did while I was at NU and I paid 100% for everything I got from Niagara. I worked 20 hours a week for nothing as a volunteer and never once did I view it as a burden but I also worked 30 hours per week at a job to pay for rent, school and food.
I don't know what I would have given up to play college sports, but given the chance I would have given it a shot.
Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:31:28pm Author Host/IP: dsl081-135-087.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net/64.81.135.87
the difference was you still got to have a social life (get drunk, do some stupid stuff, etc) and didn't have a bunch of people in the media and on the internet constantly reporting and second-guessing your work.
Date Posted:Monday, June 29, 08:59:37pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
You know, in days gone by old Babe Ruth would get hammered before/after he pitched and everyone knew it. So did many others in college sports as well. Nobody cared. It would be covered up.
Now the stakes are higher. First off, drinking under 21 is illegal. If you do when your team says no, and you agreed to that, then you have to live by your decisions. Yes, you will be judged by a higher standard, and that's because some little impressionable girl or boy might look to you as a hero in some way and I know it's a lot to ask, but then again people who excell as D1 athletes are unique and rare to begin with. Is it too much to ask that they take their position seriously? That's why the signature on the form is for your name and not somebody elses.
