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Old 11-06-2021, 08:30 PM   #1001
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz View Post
It's not a glorified high school schedule, there's simply no comparison between 18 year olds and 20-22 year olds in terms of physical maturity, experience, etc.

Those are glorified high school TEAMS a lot of these so-called D1 programs are fielding, ergo the schedule comment.

I stand by what I said for the large part.

The expansion of D1 has watered it down to the point of being almost a meaningless designation. A reset of the system -- which I've said for quite a number of years now -- is overdue. Let the de facto pro teams pay their players, treat them like the marketing department employees they are, put the rest back under student-athlete rules, put them in a division of their own.
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