Crushed Dreams Here is where it starts: the last time this girl will step on this field. One minute left in the game and this girl is pushing herself harder than ever before so her team can win. As she stops dead, her knee turns; she feels pain but she finishes the shot and scores.The team rushes the field while the girl falls to the ground clutching her knee in severe pain. This girl has just torn her ACL, and she won't ever play in college again. But how did she get here, how did this happen, and could she of avoided it? Collegiate athletes are expected to perform at higher and higher levels of skill sets, but it’s becoming harmful to their health and their future playing college sports. Collegiate sports have become very controlling over …show more content…
It started as a non-paying job just for fun, so college students could have more organized teams and possibly posses more victory. Now since college athletics are starting to have more and more regulations, along with more and more expectations for the coaches, way more money has entered this scheme and almost turned it into a money making machine. People are now starting to see that college athletics has become a business, which rakes in 1 billion dollars a year (Weaver 36). This shows that now coaches have become less of coaches and more of money makers because they want all this money that is coming into them. One major issue with coaches not staying coaches is that now when star athletes that make the money get hurt, it's rare that you will see them sit for many different reasons. Data taken from Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission Survey reveals the truth about what some coaches are doing, 22% of athletes have been encouraged to play despite injuries (Buehler 14). Most coaches will say that they care for each individual player that they are bringing onto the team and for the most part that can be true because they are bringing in money that the coaches will get in return for them just making the roster. Since college athletics has gotten more stiff competition and coaches are pushing their players more and more to get the best they can get, breaks are rare and few. There are never any breaks for athletes, not even on national holidays and they are not even a professional in that sport, sometimes they are not even close (Buehler 14). Also the amount of breaks depend on the division they are playing and coaching at. These days there is not much difference in the division's training regiments throughout each season because of the stiff competition that the coaches are making for themselves. “At most competitive