College athletes are treated differently than non-college athletes. I saw the proof in Spanish 101. I won't name the star football player in my Spanish class, but he "got it real easy." He came in the first day of classes, learned how to say "Hola", and what it meant, then disappeared for the rest of the semester until the final exam. When he came in for the final exam, the instructor said, "Hola!", and this star athlete said, "Huh??"
After I graduated, my intelligent girlfriend at the time, was helping grade English papers for one of her professors. You would not believe some of the "you should have learned that before 1st grade" errors we came across on some of the athlete's essays.
One stands out in particular. A star athlete turned in an essay on "Animal Rights' Issues", and wrote an essay worthy of a Nobel prize. We didn't even know what some of the words he used meant. The essay was supposed to be atleast 5 pages long. After 4 pages of reading this scholary piece of work, the athlete wrote with a pen, "Sorry it ain't 5 pages. My computer broken." That's when I started questioning Bensel-Meyers, or whatever her name was. She may have well been exactly right in her accusations, but we as fans didn't want to hear that. She was painted as "evil" and was "let go."
I also always wondered why some of our players were driving $70,000 Mercedes' and other vehicles when they were still in school. Supposedly, most of them didn't come from wealthy families, but some of them did. I can see why Peyton Manning was driving one of the very first Ford Expedition's ever made.
It's just what an 18 year old needs. To be "splattered" with adoration, praise, and fame at an early age.
That's just how it's been for a while.
They're "full of themselves." ( Not all of them, but most of them.)
But if they make it to the NFL, they get even more slack. I've never heard of anyone ever killing a mother of young kids while driving drunk, spending less time behind bars as an NFL player.
It's not fair, but that's how it is.
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