Jamarqueza Mims
ENGL 111:23
Division and Classification
Classification and Division The collegiate football athletes have hopes and dreams into becoming a professional athlete. But, college football talent does not fit into hierarchy. Players coming from different high school divisions can overlap talent levels with speed, stability, strength and much more. The average football player is divided into three distinct traits, athleticism, awareness and high character; each offers different views, facilities and climatic conditions. Being an athlete comes with characteristics strength, speed and flexibility. Being flexible allows you to build your speed as an college football player. It works on your strides and ability when carrying the ball.
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While leading into awareness play recognition takes a big toll on a football player. An athlete comes with brains, a player must be able to remember the proper plays and protocols. During camps and football training players are often handed a play book with every play that they will need to know a remember. Most position coaches will give the players a test to see if they have been studying the playbook and also see how quickly they can remember a book full of plays. While on the field an athlete has to make smart decisions on a play and understand why the play was made. Is the specific play going to be able to get them yards on the field, get them in the red zone or field goal range or is it to shake the opponent up and catch them off their toes. Another thing player must do is react quickly, football is an up speed fast tempo sport. Reacting quick can help gain play recognition on the field. The reaction time is the time taken for a player to react to a given situation. Sometimes it may not be directly important to a player’s skill set, but it is almost as important as a player’s technical ability. Defending during open play combines both your reflexes and game reading ability. If you spot an opponent making a run behind your defense, you can …show more content…
Players can be highly motivated into the game but they do not understand what team work or good judgement in decisions is. For example, Randy Moss is an former National Football League wide receiver who played fourteen seasons. Moss played college football at Marshall University and twice earned All- America honors. He was drafted to Minnesota Vikings in the first round and pick twenty-one of 1998 NFL draft and retired with the San Francisco 49ers in the year of 2013. Moss outside of the football life had a rough childhood but dedicated to playing football. Moss outside of the game made poor decisions legally smoking marijuana and testing positive also violation probation and sentence jail time. He also does not have good sportsmanship. He had an outstanding career holding high stats professionally and at a collegiate level. Having 15,292 receiving yards ranked number three out of all wide receivers in the National Football
There are thousands of high school football players across the nation, and a handful of them have what it takes to play at the college level. Those that do have the raw talent normally get reached by college football recruiters and coaches. The NCAA, the National College Athletic Association, has many rules and regulations especially surrounding the rules and conduct of recruiting student athletes. Men's football takes the most notice, as well as basketball, of all collegiate sports in the U.S. today (Smith, 2015). According to Langelett (2003), the NCAA limits each school to 85 football scholarships. With a limited number of scholarships available, schools spend a considerable amount of time and money on recruiting players.
Coaches are always looking for a better understanding of what makes up a winning team. This knowledge would help them in recruiting athletes that could improve the team’s statistics in the areas we observed. We took the entire statistical breakdown from the 1999-2000 season and were hoping to find any key statistical areas that could be directly related to winning percentage.
This article is helpful because it is giving you examples of what college athletes at the NCAA level are given just by playing college athletics.
Football has been defined as one of the most competitive sports in the world. There are many different levels of playing, such as flag, high school, college, and professional. Where most of the rules stay the same no matter what stage of playing you are at, some things do change. When coaching in flag football for little kids you won’t be making money, the players aren’t recruited, and you don’t have a set number of players for your team. When playing n college and in the National Football League (NFL) all of those things come into play.
In recent discussions of college football sensation Leonard Fournette, a topic of heated debate has been rather football players should be required to attend college before entering the N.F.L. The current rule in place requires that players be at least three years out of highschool(Knowlton). This generally means that high school players must attend college for a few years before going to the N.F.L. One side of the argument is that this rule should not be in place because it prevents able athletes from joining as well as puts their dreams a risk as they could potentially suffer a career ending injury in college. The opposing side says that this rule provides the N.F.L with better, smarter, and more mature players. I agree with the latter argument for the said reasons and also due to the fact that the rule benefits both college and professional football.
...ic ability and performance is based primarily on the athletes that participate in the athletic programs. In order to recruit and retain the best athletes for their college athletic programs coaches and colleges alike have made many exceptions and broken many rules. The preferential treatment of athletes is just one of the areas where these exceptions have been made. No matter the area where the exceptions are made these variances from the societal norm are brought about by the high demands and expectations placed on athletic teams to represent their community through success in competitive endeavors. Again, a team's level of success determines its level of community support and therefore determines its survival due to its need to be self-sufficient. Unfortunately the exceptions made and privileges given are often at the expense of the average student, the non-athlete.
Before any football player can say they are for sure going to play in the NFL for a career, they might want to consider how likely that will happen. The statistics of a football player going to the NFL are extremely low. The chances of playing college football at the levels of division one (D1) or division two (D2) on scholarship are also slim. The D1 or D2 college levels of football produce the most NFL players. Most high school football players want to play in D1 or D2 football, but the reality is that barely any of them will. There are an estimated 1,093,234 senior high school football players in the United States (“Football”). The astonishing reality is that just 4.2% of those 1,093,234 seniors in high school will play college football at the D1 or D2 level (“Football”). If a football player does get their scholarship to play college football they should feel grateful that they are one of the roughly 45,916 to accomplish that (“Football”). The statistics are now even lower for a college football player that is trying to make it to the NFL. There are only 15,842 college football players eligible for the NFL Draft, which are juniors and seniors (“Football”). Just the tiny number of 1.6% is how many of those draft eligible players will play in the NFL. Many coll...
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There are many things in life that have their unique differences. Every level of Football has its 's differences, but there are some differences that matter the most. Different things have to be done from the high school level to the college level, and to the national level of football. There are different requirements needed in a players ' arsenal to develop a certain football leveled skill-set. This essay is about the difference between the high school football level and the professional football level. Some of these differences have to do with safety and protection of players.
One of the all time great quarterbacks Michael Vick once said, I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn 't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.The career of professional football player or job as a Football Player falls under the broader career category of Athletes and Sports Competitors. I love the sport of football.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of college football would be nothing without its players. The NCAA is broken up into three divisions, going from best known and talented universities in division one to the least known and talented universities in division three. Depending on the talent of the high school player he can pick from any of the three divisions. If that same player reaches the ultimate goal of a college football player, which is to be recruited to the Nation Football League (NFL) then that player is known as a Premium college player. The argument that college football student athletes originated from these divisions three schools. This is because those universities wish to make their Institutions seem more appealing to potential high school football recruits. The idea then began to accept at all colleges, but the NCAA does not allow direct payment from colleges to players. Universities then began trying to go around the rules and find other ways to compensate the players....
The selection process of an athlete is the result of the productivity of their abilities just like a slave’s trade all depended on the virtues and mass production they could bring to the plantations.The athletes are picked to work for the college based on how skilled, strong, and agile they are. The players are examined and watched on a field while showing their dexterities and then go to the highest bidder. Much like how slaves were taken to auctions and lined up in front of buyers who examined them to see how muscular, strong, healthy, and dexterous they were. Tom Lemming is the top national recruiting analyst for ESPN. For the NCAA he scouts, ranks, and rates high school football players such as Greg Jones from Beaufort, South Carolina ...
The effectiveness of the coaching method depends completely on the coach, his personality, and the needs of the student-athletes. Each program and institution is unique and has different institutional goals and objectives that attract different student-athletes compared to other colleges or universities (Koivula, Hassmen, Fallby, 2002).
Football players should be football players first and athletes second. This doesn't mean that their athletic areas of fitness, speed, etc. strength, stamina, etc. are not important, because they are, but skill. and specificity and perhaps sprint are the most important. Football players need a combination of aerobic and anaerobic fitness.
My dream job in the future would be professional football player. I have loved the game of football since I was a little kid because it’s a good sport and you can tackle the player and catch and do anything in the sport as long as you follow the rules. The colleges that I’m looking forward to go to are UNC, Oregon, or Appalachian State.