<p>Whats your perception of the athletes at your school. Preferably the athletes of big sports, or at least sports that the majority of the campus supports.</p>
<p>Just curious as a future college athlete</p>
<p>Toby Gerhart is the ****ing man. The football players in my classes have generally been cool guys. Swimmers are huge. I’ll tell you the rest of the sports at the end of the year.</p>
<p>At my school (division 1 NCAA), it’s really up to the athletes how they want to be perceived. Athletes who choose to get involved in the residential college system and be a part of life here are well-respected for being able to balance athletics, academics, a social life, etc. Then there are the athletes who disappear after orientation week and never talk to anyone not on their athletic team. no one really cares about them, to be honest.</p>
<p>A big part of that is whether the athletes actively try and be friendly with/make friends with non-athletes in the broader school community or whether they just stick to themselves, which can be seen as being insular and cliquish. </p>
<p>generally at my school the annoying insular athletes are the football and baseball teams, while the more open-minded and friendly athletes are the cross-country and swimming teams.</p>
<p>Alright cool, just wondering. Hoping to be playing for stanford soon enough. Or anywhere D1. I guess I was just wondering if theyd all be looked upon as stuck up and stuff.</p>
<p>Yeah Toby Gerhart is the man.
21 credit hours + football + baseball = insane</p>
<p>Cardinal16: That’s cool Stanford has a pretty good football program.</p>
<p>Yup, thanks to coach harbaugh</p>
<p>at ND, it’s really however they want to be perceived. Sure, you can tell who the football and basketball players are when they walk around campus, but they’re basically treated as normal students and many of them do quite well in the classroom. Many students have the perception that they are not as smart as the average student (probably true, on average), but our graduation rates for athletes (98% overall, 96% football) show that our athletes can do the work at the school.</p>
<p>*Yup, thanks to coach harbaugh *</p>
<p>also thanks to andrew luck who finally got defenses to stop focusing on toby and actually consider that stanford might throw the ball effectively.</p>
<p>I’m at Stanford and I like the athletes. Sure, there are the athletes who don’t socialize with non-athletes, but they are in the minority and I really don’t care about them. On the other hand some of my best friends here are athletes.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about being perceived as a dumb jock. At least at Stanford you are given the benefit of the doubt. You are assumed to be intelligent until you prove otherwise.</p>
<p>I go to Michigan State. The dorm I live in is the athletes’ dorm. I haven’t really talked to that many athletes as they tend to stick to themselves but the large majority of them seem really nice. There are the few that act like they are “holier than thou” and can get away with anything, and then there are a few who get caught up in the “i’m a football/basketball player, I can get any girl i want and sleep with every other person i meet” but in general this is not characteristic of the whole athlete population (there are a lot of jersey-chaser girls especially at my school who fawn over athletes, so many players get caught up with this type of thing). </p>
<p>The average intelligence of (big sport-football/basketball primarily) athletes also is admittedly lower than the general student body, although it really depends. One of my best friends is a div I swimmer…she is probably one of the most intelligent, hardworking people I know. As an athlete it’s really up to you to make your own perception. People aren’t going to assume you are stupid as an athlete if you make the effort to integrate yourself into the school’s academic and social atmosphere and are willing to make friends outside of the athlete sphere.</p>