I want to open this column by coming clean on some stereotypes I’ve harbored for a while. They certainly aren’t unique to me; chances are good that you have held them at some point or another, if not now. And, perhaps ironically, those stereotypes are misconceptions about the subject of this very section: student-athletes.
All of us have heard the comments before. “They don’t care about studying.” “They’re only here because they can catch a pass or dunk a basketball.” “I bet they aren’t actually majoring in a real subject like I am.”
And like most stereotypes, these have a grain of truth.