College Athletic Scholarships - Don't Believe The #1 Myth
Believing the #1 myth about college athletic scholarships could cost you a football scholarship and well as an opportunity to get your college education paid for. What small town student athletes don't realize is that although they may be the star receiver of their local Friday night football games, that does not mean the are NCAA Division I material.
Local media, parents, and their communities automatically think that if they are stars on the home field, they will automatically play for the big state school. This is just not true! Most small town athletes will not be heavily recruited, and most will not receive athletic scholarships to the big school programs.
In most cases, the student athlete who listens to this hype is in for a sad awakening and a big shock when he is not even considered for full ride scholarships to play at the top university programs. The #1 myth not only holds true for football scholarships, but it is true for every NCAA sport.
This one erroneous idea firmly planted in the heads of countless student athletes by their local media, their parents, their coaches, and their communities is primarily responsible for thousands upon thousands of kids not getting college sports scholarships, and even worse it is responsible for them failing to obtain any type of scholarship whether it be academic or some other form of financial aid.
This is called the 'Big Fish In A Little Pond" syndrome, and it causes many high school student athletes to not only miss out on their chance at an athletic scholarship, but it also causes them to miss out on other types of scholarships that they might have been eligible for.
When student athletes are told they are the best, and that a big time scholarship is forthcoming, they often neglect their academics, thus preventing them from even applying for many academic scholarships, much less getting one.
When they let down on their high school academics thinking that they have a free ride into college via their 'sure-fire' college athletic scholarship, then, they are also setting themselves up to be ineligible for entrance into many colleges and universities even if their parents could afford to finance their higher education.
A second problem resulting from the 'big fish in the little pond' syndrome is that student athletes are often not offered the full ride scholarships that they have been hoping for and dreaming about? They are not offered the scholarship they have been told and learned to believe will be theirs.
Rather, they are offered a partial college athletic scholarship. A partial sports scholarship will cover certain expenses but not all. For example, it might cover tuition but not room and board. Who has to come up with the rest of the money? Many families simply will not be able to scratch up the remainder of the money. Many of these student athletes will not go on to get a higher education.
It would be nice if the student had some kind of academic scholarship that would pay for these expenses that the partial scholarship does not pay. But no, this probably won't happen since the student athletes have been totally 'snowed' by their entire local community into believing all they have to do is be the hero of the local sports community.
The staggering truth is that college coaches only actively recruit 2% of high school athletes. What about the other 98%? Many of this huge percentage of high school athletes fall into this huge group.
What happens to their dreams of playing sports at the collegiate level? What happens to their dreams of getting a college education when they have depended so heavily on landing a full ride scholarship?
They typically either do not get a scholarship of any kind or they are offered some kind of partial scholarship. While college athletic scholarships have helped countless young men and women get their college degrees, many of them have been sadly disappointed when they do not get one of these highly prized and sought after sports scholarships.
High school students whether they are athletically inclined or not should conscientiously keep their grades up and excel as members of their community.
Doing these two things will enable them to not only be eligible for many, many more opportunities to receive college athletic scholarships and a variety of other scholarships as well, but doing these two things while they are still in high school will also enable them to have a much better chance to be admitted into the universities of their choice.
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