Got cold on the coast.
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Got cold on the coast.
Well, football is almost certainly not the best solution for this, but a lot of the kids playing football would not even be considering attending college without it (for a variety of reasons financial and otherwise). Would they be better off going to school and not playing football? In some, perhaps most cases yes, but school + football probably still beats no school + no football.
But that's what needs to change. Football is not a way out. It's brain damage in pursuit of a nearly impossible goal. Playing a D1 varsity sport in college is akin to having a full time job. It is not just football players who spend 60+ hours a week on sports related activities during their sports' season, it's all the athletes. I used to laugh at that ad for the NCAA showing the female student in a chemistry lab, the one that talked about how many college athletes would be going pro in something other than sports. College athletes don't major in chemistry or anything else that requires a lot of time in the lab, they quite simply do not have time. Yes, yes, there are a few exceptions. In 20 years of teaching an upper level course for physics majors at Harvard, my husband had 2 athletes take the course. 2. In 20 years. Both were track athletes who could arrange their solo practice time around labs.
I dated a Duke women’s lax player in college. IIRC, she was the first lax player to ever graduate from Pratt. Or one of the first…
She worked much harder in college than I ever have in my life. I used to spend the night and rollout of bed at 9:00 AM or so as she was coming back from a 2 hour morning workout and study hall.
Good for her! Do engineers have labs? I probably shouldn't have included all STEM subjects in the discussion, math is another major that might fit in with the schedule of a varsity athlete. The worry there would be keeping the GPA up to the required levels to continue to participate in sports. The entire time I was at Duke, the math department gave the lowest grades. I don't think that changed much over the years. When a math professor says that they will grade on a curve and center on a B-, they know what that means. Majoring in math is not a good idea for athletes for that reason. ;)