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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP, but it seems quite obvious to me that “better stigma” is meant to be synonymous with “higher status.”[/quote]

What has our world come to when "it seems quite obvious" that a thing is meant to mean its opposite?[/quote]
Our world continues to be a place where some people can understand an awkwardly worded phrase because of context clues, and others apparently are too literal to do so. It also helps if you don’t pull one sentence of a paragraph out and quote it out of context, as you did with mine above.  I’ll try once again to help you with your confusion, because I truly have nothing better to do today and this thread is amusing me.

To recap:
OP asked what was the allure of playing D1 at a tiny, rural, “so-so” school where the academics may not be challenging for the player (we do not know why OP has an animus toward small schools or rural schools—OP has not clarified).

One of the few PPs who has stayed on topic sought to answer this question. He briefly highlighted (1) things about tiny schools that some may find alluring, (2) things about rural schools that some may find alluring, and (3) things about playing D1 vs other levels of soccer that some might find alluring. He concluded by sharing his opinion that college is what you make of it (i.e., can be as challenging as you want it to be) and there is always grad school if you want a name school. His highlights for his (3) included the possibility that the D1 school might offer better competition, TV broadcasting of games, or “a better stigma”. While “better stigma” doesn’t make much sense, unless you are comparing two schools with negative reputations and one of them (the D1 school) at least doesn’t carry as bad a stigma as the other, it does seem quite obvious to me that by “better stigma” he meant higher status athletically speaking/more bragworthy to those who think it’s impressive to have the talent to play at a very high level.  Note that status in this context is different from the USNWR academic status many of us on the College Forums discuss. To give an example even a very literal person may understand, being a regular football starter at LSU, University of Arkansas, or Auburn is much more athletically impressive than being a regular football starter at Harvard.

PP who used “better stigma”—please correct the record if any of this recap fails to capture your intent.

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Thanks but you entirely missed my point - which was to question the state of world where your point is valid.[/quote]

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