College Athletes

Recently in the news I read an article about how three football players from the University of Alabama were arrested for robbery. This shocks me that three players who were a part of a national championship team felt the need to do something against the law. I know it's hard to live as a college student because you do not have a lot of money but athletes at many universities are given special treatment. They are able to have extensions on work and are given tutors to help them with their school work as well. What I don't understand is that the students that are these three students are one of the few privileged students on campus but they don't think that they still have enough to make them happy. Being an athlete is a privilege and you are always put on the spotlight, especially someone like a college football player that just won the national championship. The football players on campus are supposed to be role models for younger boys and going around and robbing places. As an applicant of the university, his shows me that the town of Tuscaloosa is not a town where I would feel safe. It's really important to me that where I go to college next year I feel safe and secure. I don't want to go to school where three of the "big men on campus" are robbing places in the area. In the article it also said that another football player was suspended for hitting a kid and then stealing his wallet and then breaking into a car later. This definitely turns me away from attending the University of Alabama because of how dangerous the town sounds and how something like this could happen on campus.