For College Athletes, Recruiting Is a Fair (but Flawed) Game

Autor/in	Sander, Libby
Titel	For College Athletes, Recruiting Is a Fair (but Flawed) Game
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 17, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Athletics; Athletes; Scholarships; Student Surveys; Student Recruitment; Stress Variables; Athletic Coaches; College Choice; College Bound Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College athletes; Collegesport; Hochschulsport; Athlet; Scholarship; Stipendium; Schülerbefragung; Studienortwahl
Abstract	Despite all the alarm that recruiting in college sports has spun out of control, for many athletes the process was neither as intrusive, nor as lavish, as its critics have warned, according to a "Chronicle" survey of hundreds of current Division I athletes. But the accelerated pace of recruiting, and the demands it placed on athletes during their sophomore and junior years of high school, left many of them feeling overwhelmed. Some said they were uncomfortable with having to make hasty decisions during their senior year, sometimes in a matter of days, about whether to accept scholarships. And the majority of athletes said they had little exposure to the academic side of campus life, such as meeting with professors or sitting in on classes, during their campus visits. Most of the nearly 300 athletes who responded to the survey said the institutions they now attend were fairly portrayed to them during the recruiting process. But a few had harsh words for the coaches who recruited them. The survey also showed that as recruiting spreads to ever-younger athletes, the recruits are making greater numbers of unofficial visits to campuses before their senior year, trips that the students or their families must pay for. More than four-fifths of the surveyed athletes made at least one such visit, and nearly one in five players went on five or more unofficial recruiting trips. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10