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I suspect not attending classes is fairly common at most schools. These aren’t student athletes anymore. They’re professional football players in a developmental league that just happens to be on college campuses. 

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27 minutes ago, Tuco Ramirez said:

I suspect not attending classes is fairly common at most schools. These aren’t student athletes anymore. They’re professional football players in a developmental league that just happens to be on college campuses. 

Yes. ND is one of the very few that is required to attend classes 

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5 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Yes. ND is one of the very few that is required to attend classes 

Good for ND.

Fwiw, my daughter graduated from UT in 2017. Even though she is a legacy and grew up in a Burnt Orange home and went to many Longhorns football games as a kid... her Sophomore year on the Forty Acres she had a class with a DB on the football team. Not a starting player, but a guy who saw a decent number of snaps on Special Teams and in the Secondary in certain personnel packages.

The professor assigned a group project and the football player invited the student group to meet in the study facility used by the football team.

After the first meeting, my daughter called me in a bit of a huff. She was upset and jealous of the "incredibly nice" meeting/study facility the University provided for the football players. I told her she was a bit naive about how the World of Big Time college football worked! And this was before the era of NIL.

I remember she said the Longhorns football player was a good student, "but he ought to be, given the support given to the players."

The player transferred after that year, which was also his Sophomore season at Texas.

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