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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If community colleges now offer 4 year degrees and sports how are they not just college?[/quote]

They offer associates degrees, not bachelors degrees. Many students transfer to a four year school to finish. And yes, they are just college. College is college, and people are getting educations in different ways that fit their needs. There are lots of paths, and that is a very good thing.[/quote]

I am not at all trying to disparage anyone who goes to community college to save money and then transfer to a 4 year college to finish their degree...but that's not really at all why many athletes do it.

They do it to get picked up by a D1 program and they still preserve all 4 years of D1 eligibility.  For baseball, the added benefit of JUCO is you can be drafted into the MLB at anytime while if you attend a 4-year college you aren't draft-eligible until after your junior year.

The kids I know doing it are taking the minimum number of JUCO classes to play.  They don't look at their JUCO years as really doing much of anything to get them towards a 4-year degree (because again, if things work out as planned then they are playing say 2 years in JUCO and then 4 years in D1).[/quote]

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