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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not D3 but Harvard - 27% attrition.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/2/21/athlete-attrition-data-2020/[/quote]

The Brown AD estimated 30% quit in 2016 too. That is high! 
I was an athlete at a top ranked D3 school and the time commitment was intense but nothing like a high-end D1, which I've observed post-grad at Stanford and Maryland. Schools like Amherst, Chicago, Hopkins, MIT, Swarthmore, and Williams strike a better balance expectation wise. I love my sport and still play at over 30 but the difficulties described in the Harvard article would be tough to deal with for four years. [/quote]

D3 sports are a joke [/quote]

Spoken like someone that's never played sports. I won't argue with the differences in athletic ability between D1 and D3 but there is still a huge time commitment for a D3 athlete. It isn't a DI level but then again, they don't get free rides or even partial scholarships. In season, you are talking about 20-30 hours a week. So when you are off boozing it up on a Thursday night or sleeping off a hangover all day Saturday, in season, football players are either travelling to their game or trying to catch up on school work or studying game film - at least the kids that play at good programs are doing that. I played D3 football and 5-6 Saturdays meant waking up at 6 AM taking a 3-4 hour but ride, playing a game, taking a 3-4 hour bus ride home and getting home around 8 PM.

Out of season, you are talking about a minimum of 10 hours a week (usually more) in working out, training, etc.

They are doing this all for fun. There is no pro league for D3 athletes. The stands are generally only filled with parents and close friends. D3 athletes are doing this because they love to play and realize that there is only a finite time left to play their sport at a competitive level - for football players (which I was one). After you graduate, there is no post-college football league or pick-up a D3 athlete can play in unlike other sports like basketball et al.[/quote]

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