Quote: sweets, you've got it wrong - they're not playing to focus more on studies, they're not playing to enjoying the full experience of being a college student and all that comes with it. they give up a big part of the college life experience when they decide to be a college athlete.
Not picking on youletmepututtooyouthisway but your post was something i could quote from. I will be bragging a little. My question first would be, why cant it all be done. Pick a school because you like the school, its athletics and be able to do all that comes with the college experience. As most of you know mine finished high school Jan 8th and entered LSU a seamester early on jan 12th.One of the main reasons she chose LSU was for its soccer program. They finished 2009 ranked number 14 in the country. Often we talk on here about a kid picking a school for the name on the jersey and sitting the bench when they could of went somewhere else and started. In the 2 spring games they have played she started both and played 70 mins in the first one and 80 in the second.It is tuff with getting up every morning at 6:00 for conditioning and practice but it is paying off. She also picked LSU because she liked the campus and it had a good mass communication program. she is doing well with carring over 14 credit hours. it is also hard work but it is shown by her being named one of the 5 student athletes of the month for april. with all this going on she hangs out with friends,goes to baseball,basketball,track and any other number of events. she has also worked with habitat for humanity while has been there and goes to a local school one day a week to help out with the kids. it can be done
