The fact is that if the sport is football or basketball played at the Division 1 level there is no time to be a student, at least if you are African/American.
Studies show that black Division I football and men’s basketball players spend three times as many hours per week on athletics as they do on academics. On average, the players spend more than 25 hours on sports-related activities other than games, such as practice, workouts, general team meetings, film sessions and travel. On the other hand, the players spend less than eight hours on academics outside of class, such as writing papers, studying, getting tutored or working on group projects. Most football and men’s basketball players underperform academically and routinely graduate at lower rates than “other student-athletes, black non-athletes and undergraduates in general.”
What is the payoff as less than 2 percent of college football players get into the NFL, and only 1.2 percent of college basketball players get drafted into the NBA.
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