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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS is a D1 athlete at a T25. Yes, he had SAT score above the 75th percentile for that school and 4 plus gpa with 10 AP’s. Happened to be a stellar athlete to boot. Same for another kid whose stats and rigor I know on his team. It’s incredibly difficult handling academics and 40hours of sport/travel a week, so having a solid academic base/study habits/intellect is essential.[/quote]
I’m calling BS on 40 hours a week [/quote]

40 hours a week on sports does seem like an exaggeration, but point taken.  I guess this is why college athletes are desirable hires. Although, I think their appeal to employers in finance has more to do with the bro culture that still pervades finance, Wall St, etc. [/quote]

My DS is a baseball player at a D3.  During the season, my DS absolutely has some weeks where he spends close to 40 hours a week on baseball - not actively playing and practicing but if you add up all the travel time, it is 40 hours.  D1 baseball players are allowed to spend more time practicing than at the D3 level and they probably travel further than D3 teams do, so I can see baseball players spending 40 hours a week on the sport.

Games are 3 hours in length.  They play one game during the week and 3 on the weekend - a doubleheader one weekend day with about 45 minutes between the doubleheader and a single game the other day.  They have to report to the field two hours before the game starts.  If they are at home, they have field maintenance at the conclusion of the game.  I usually pick my DS up about 45 minutes after the conclusion of a home game (I go to all the home games.)  So at a minimum, the time they spend in one week at the field for games is 22 hours.  They practice three days a week - practices are two hours.  Plus they have lifts which take an hour.  Those are typically at 7:00am.  So that is about 28 hours.

But they always travel at least to one away game a week - either during the week or the weekend.  My DS' team only plays games that are driving distance but they will go as far as 5 hours away on a weekend and 2 hours away during the week.  So you add that 28 hours plus 4 - 10 hours of travel and you are at 32 - 38 hours.  When my DS goes to away games, he has a difficult time doing classwork.  He gets carsick if he reads on a bus so travel time is out of the question.  The team goes to breakfast and dinner together when they're traveling - there isn't much down time when they are on the road to do any work.  So during the season, he can't count on having much time to study on the weekends.  I can't imagine the time commitment for D1 baseball players.[/quote]

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