Why is d1 college sports so glazed so hard when u can just work hard and easily get there over others?

Posted by Due-Shame-5818@reddit | AskAnAmerican | View on Reddit | 18 comments

Asking here bc this is an American only thing😭

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gator_mckluskie@reddit

you sound like you have no idea what you’re talking about. do you not have curious levels of athletic competition in your country?

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C8H10N4O2_snob@reddit

What are "curious levels of competition"?

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In America college football and basketball are just full on professional sports leagues that just so happen to be loosely affiliated with universities. The only way to make it onto a team in one of these leagues is to be scouted, evaluated and signed to a contract just like in any other pro sports league. The whole school and academics part of the university is just an entirely separate thing from the pro sports teams they run. Ones ability to get into Alabama or Ohio State has no bearing on their ability to play on either schools football team

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workntohard@reddit

For the college sports with a professional path later it takes a lot more than just working hard. You need that extra bit that comes from talent and coaching. You could be the hardest working athlete spending time studying the sport to get better but still never be good enough to go pro. On the other hand some of those almost pro players may become better coaches.

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Annoyed21@reddit

I think they think all you have to do is work hard and you can be successful at D1 sports. Dude those people are incredibly talented and work incredibly hard to make it. I know as my sister was a highly successful D1 basketball player. She was naturally tall, and agile, but she worked her ass off to make it.

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The answer is because it’s not easy to play at a top school by just “working hard”.

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when u can just work hard and easily get there over others?

You are underestimating how competitive most D1 programs are.

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