A College Football Change?

College football and school can be tough and hard to manage at times and for one current college quarterback, he believe it's time to change the way college football impacts them as students.

UCLA QB Josh Rosen told Bleacher Report on Tuesday that football and academics "don't go together."

Rosen is now a junior at UCLA and says that his demands as a student-athlete have led him to the realization that "human beings don't belong in school with our schedules."

Rosen believes that not only being an economics major is hard, but that also being a college football player is "like trying to do two full-time jobs," and says that many students are not well-equipped enough to balance both school and football commitments.

He believes that there's one way to fix it, however, and that is to raise the academic requirements and he believe it will hinder most programs, so that players can automatically jump to the NFL without having to go to college.

Rosen said about it, "There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL...There's no other way. Then there's the other side that says raise the SAT eligibility requirements. OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have. You lose athletes, and then the product on the field suffers."

Wow, seemed like a shot at Alabama.

Anyway, that being said, does Rosen have a point and is it time for college football to either change the way it affects student-athletes or is it time to start getting rid of it altogether? I think change is probably necessary, just because I hear a lot of stories about student-athletes having to be both a student and an athlete at the same time, and we usually hear it with big-name colleges who put a lot of emphasis on academics like Stanford, like UCLA, and many others.

I'm only going to speak from experience in this case: Being a student is definitely hard-work, and it does feel like a full-time work because you have so much to balance, and I would imagine being an athlete as well puts a lot more pressure on you not only to succeed but to be the best athlete ever at the college you're at. Now I've never been an athlete, but I do understand the hard rigors of college and what they expect out for you, so I get Josh Rosen and why he feels this way.

I do say change is necessary, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's about the program or about the student himself. He did say something about time management and that student-athletes haven't been great at it. I would like to see them get more help from people like counselors or professors or academic help, just because I'm not exactly sure that they fully utilize what they have in front of them in that regard, when they need it. I believe that is a crucial element in trying to fix time management. I also believe in things like study groups and all that, just because I think it's also important to get help from homework and other things with each other. So there's a couple of things that can be done to effectively use time management and be able to succeed in two things.

But Rosen needs to understand one thing: It's definitely a grind. College is not always meant to be pretty and fun and all that. It's definitely something where you do have to grind it out and every day and work the best you can to succeed. I understand why he feels stressed out and all that to meet expectations in two different, but similar things, but I think the NCAA and the schools should come together and figure out how best to help athletes succeed on the field and on the classroom. Let's face it: If Rosen is saying what he is saying, then I don't believe schools are doing enough yet to fully help these kids succeed in school and on the field. Hopefully, there'll come a time when they can do it.