Sports and Conduct

Professionals and even student athletes all make mistakes. Whether it’s during a game, on the streets, or in the classroom, mistakes are made and there has to be consequences. In the pros, it’s a fine, in college you’ll probably do a lot of running or get suspended, and in high school you could get kicked off the team. The fact that these rules are in affect shows that commissioners, coaches, directors of athletics, and town and state boards of education really want athletes to succeed on and off the court and represent themselves in the right manner. This is clearly the right thing to do, but the game would go on without it. If a football player rushes for 300 yards in a game, goes and burns down a building the next day, and has even better game the next week, he’s still a good athlete and sports would still get the publicity. By these commissioners’ stepping in and setting rules it shows that they don’t just want good athletes; they want good genuine people on and off the field or court. To make a more direct analogy, a student athlete being recruited to play division I baseball decides at the end of his senior year he’s not going to go to class anymore. No college is going to want someone that’s not going to be a hard worker on the field or off the field, because odds are, if you “turn it on and off” in the classroom, you might do that on the field to. Nothing in life is a give in besides death. We have to work hard each and every second of everyday if we want to succeed, and rules and regulations like these show that all the commissioners and people with authority really do care and want the best for their athletes’ in every which way possible.- Joe Nitti