Short YouTube video by Trenton Luera advising athletes to maintain good grades. The speaker explains that academic performance affects NCAA eligibility, signals reliability to coaches, and can increase the amount of academic aid (allowing coaches to allocate less athletic scholarship money), especially at lower-division programs.
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Getting better grades will give you more scholarship opportunities. You hear people say all the time, if you're an athlete, you need to take care of stuff in the classroom. And it makes sense because you have to be academically eligible to even compete in college in the first place. But the thing they're not telling you is by getting better grades, you're showing coaches that you take care of stuff outside of the field. On top of that, if you're not going D1FBs, so big programs like Alabama, USC, or D1FBs, if you're going lower than that, so D1FCs, D2, D3, NIA, you will qualify for more academic money. And this is a big benefit to these schools. And this is why that coaches and people harp on, hey, you have to take care of stuff in the classroom because by getting more academic money, they can give you less athletic money and save more for other guys because they have less athletic scholarships to give out, but still need to fill a roster just the same as some of the top programs. So think about it from a coach's perspective. Who are they going to take? Let's say each kid is the same talent, same measurables, same exactly. But one kid.