Webster Dictionary defines ungrateful has, "showing no gratitude and making a poor return to a good gesture". This is how I would like to define a numeorus amount of Division 1 football players. These players are given the oppurtinity to go to school for free, and also play a sport that most of them love for four more years. If someone gave you the oppurtunity like that, wouldnt you try to do everything in your power to put full effort on the field, classroom, and have respect to everyone and everything in the institution? Cam Newton is the perfect example taking a great oppurtunity and wasting it. Newton was caught academically cheating THREE times at the University of Florida and also was arrested for stealing a laptop from a dorm room. The question I ask is, " Should he still have the oppurnity to compete in athletics?" What lesson is being taught if the athlete can just swich schools and continue to represent the NCAA? This in my opinion makes the NCAA look really bad. It gives of the assumption that they just care about athletics. Cam Newton is under a lot of scrutiny because of these incidents. I feel he deserves every single bit of bad press.
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