With the college football season underway, it is important to remind ourselves that college football players should not be made into super-star athletes that we worship every Saturday.
When you lose the concept that these players are only in their early twenties and not fully matured men, you don’t understand their mistakes as easily. Whether their mistakes are on or off the field they’re bound to happen at some point.
Off the field problems can be due to college athletes feeling like they should have celebrity treatment. In 2011, Texas A&M quarterback, Johnny Manziel was beginning his rise to fame, or should I say infamy?