08-08-2017, 01:53 PM
I think his statements can be read two ways. If it is a call to reform college football so that college and football can coexist better, say by advocating reducing the number of games or the hours of practice or increasing academic requirements, so that student-athletes can go back to be students, then I think that's great; it is a voice that needs to be heard.
If, on the other hand, he is offering a window into his own life, implying that he is really a full-time football player who has a hobby as a student, then, frankly, he is full of it and Shaw was right not to offer. Sorry, but a kid posing in his own in-dorm hot tub doesn't get to give us a sob story about how much work goes into football and how little time that leaves for academics. When I was at Stanford, athletes would often say that you can focus two out of three: athletics, academics, and a social life, and plenty gave up their social life in order to thrive in the other two.
BC
If, on the other hand, he is offering a window into his own life, implying that he is really a full-time football player who has a hobby as a student, then, frankly, he is full of it and Shaw was right not to offer. Sorry, but a kid posing in his own in-dorm hot tub doesn't get to give us a sob story about how much work goes into football and how little time that leaves for academics. When I was at Stanford, athletes would often say that you can focus two out of three: athletics, academics, and a social life, and plenty gave up their social life in order to thrive in the other two.
BC