Being a Division I Athlete in a Fraternity

[DrPhil]

Some college athletes continue to actively participate in the sport after college. Some do not. That can be based on time, access to resources, or unicorns. This young man can invest in a GLO that can be (if he takes the lifetime commitment seriously) a resource regardless of whether this young man has decided to continue his athleticism (professionally or nonprofessionally) after college.

In contrast, many college athletes (across institutions) invest so much in the sport and the team that they don't do anything else.** If they aren't hanging with teammates or doing something directly related to the team and sport, they aren't doing anything. At many institutions, that impacts them academically and extracurricular-ly (new word?). Then they graduate and wonder what's next. I've tutored and taught many athletes across institutions and many of them have had no concept of nonathletic future prospects.

**College athletes aren't the only ones who tend not to balance (by choice or because of the rigorous schedule and expectations) but this is a college athlete thread.

[33girl]

I think what Laf means is not to let anti-Greek attitudes of his teammates derail him from pursuing fraternity membership. They sound like they're on the road outlined in DrPhil's second paragraph above.