In my neck of the woods, collegiate athletes seemed to be the overly-sung heroes.

I used to hear stories of the ones who went off from the high school football team to do bigger and better things at bigger and better schools. Football is the talk of my Snapchat feed every week during those short Fall months.

The football players are the top-dog cliché in all teen movies. In such a small part of the country, the collegiate athletes appear larger than life. That power can surely go to their heads.

Bowling Green State University is back in the swing after a week away on Spring Break. It’s the talk of classrooms for weeks beforehand, most of the students headed towards the sunny shores of Florida for some light-hearted fun. It’s the best time to have some fun with your close friends and make memories that will last a lifetime.

Unfortunately, for some members of the university football team, those memories hold really big consequences.

Over the break in Miami, football players from my college were caught in a beach brawl that ended up right on Instagram. The video shows the players in the midst of a physical altercation with others who remain unnamed. The clip shows other beach-goers watching with their phones recording, egging on the fight for their own amusement.

Although parts of the story remain unclear, an investigation is being conducted by the university.

Looking through comments on the video from locals, they don’t seem to care that these players made complete fools of themselves. They were commenting on how this aggression and this “grit” was in a beach fight and not on the field. They talk about their skills as players but not their character as human beings.

Newsflash to all the college athletics spectators: These are students, human beings just like you and me who also make mistakes. When these kids make mistakes, like they will eventually, they need to know that they made a mistake. Now is not the time to talk about the yearly football rivalry. Do not inflate their egos even more.

While we're at it, to the college athletes: You are not the hero that the students and faculty paint you out to be.

Let’s be clear for once, shall we? What these student-athletes did was absolutely idiotic.

They didn’t really know how to switch from the pedestal they’re put on in a small-town school to regular tourists in a large and vast city. Their actions now reflect poorly on the mentality and morality of an entire school.

That small-town mentality that inflates the egos of athletes has given them a trip home into some deep trouble.

To the people out of the country who will read this article and see that video: I am not a student at a school with a football team that sucks. I am a student at a school with an awesome English department.