“Harder to be a top flight athlete than start a fake non-profit.”

Heh those Varsity Blues parents paid to have their kids get fake athletic credentials.

I played a sport at HYP and quit. I was a walk on so I wasn’t a recruiting slot a coach had fought for. it was a total time suck and I was never going to be a major contributor. That said, those drop off numbers sound high to me. Wasn’t true in my class. Some people were actually cut and it was pretty tough to do some sports with certain majors - particularly stem. But still most people saw it through and many have fond memories of their college years.

It’s definitely not the best ethics to go in knowing you are going to quit. But honestly the way elite schools bend over backwards to admit these athletes is pretty absurd. And they trend heavily toward wealthy sports like squash and crew. So for kids with the talent to get recruited for DI even if they don’t want to do it, well it’s not the most egregious offense I have heard in college admissions. Harder to be a top flight athlete than start a fake non-profit.

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Anonymous wrote:Not D3 but Harvard - 27% attrition.

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

Yes for clown sports they do this

Football is a clown sport?

In the Class of 2020, 11 out of 28 members of the football team ended up quitting the team. Football, which fields the largest team at Harvard, had the greatest number of athletes who dropped their sport, though it ranked ninth percentage-wise for the Class of 2020.

Over 1/3rd of a team quitting year over year seems high. Or is that normal?

My kids played D1and D3. Women’s teams. Each year group seemed to have only one player who didn’t make it from freshman year to senior year on the team.

So attrition was one player per year group. Percentage wise, that would be about 10%.

Anonymous wrote:Some D3 athletes do go pro. Ever heard of Duncan Robinson, for example? Saying D3 sucks is obviously a misleading generalization.
By the way, some D1 athletes suck, in my opinion. Some D1 schools have some really atrocious sports teams.
But yeah, on average, big difference between D3 and D1.

I know one former D2 athlete who was offered a spot on the Purdue basketball team. He was very good but not good enough to get playing time and he knew it. So he opted to play at a D2 school where he started almost every game. It really was about doing something he loved and compete — not ride the bench.

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Anonymous wrote:That would be very hard data to collect. Surveys, maybe?

D2 athletes get scholarships you know. Less likely to walk away.

Rarely full rides though.

Duh. It’s still money.

Often not that much. And often not enough to account for out of state/private tuition vs in state.

This. The few I know basically get only enough to cover course materials. Nothing very substantial.