Rather than going off topic on the pick em thread, I thought I would ask my questions here.
This college football is very strange to me. All our universities have sports teams but the crowd would usually be numbered in tens - at best. By the time one gets to university one's choice of sport team is fixed - some people will support their local team, but most will support one of the half dozen big teams. By this time those who are good at sport will have been signed up by a professional team. We don't have sport scholarships at all.
So a few questions.
Do all the players for a college team have to be studying at that college?
How long can one remain a student (not a problem for the navy of course)
Assuming only students can play, and one is only a student for three years, does this mean that the relatively fast turnover of players mean that teams can go from good to bad quite quickly - or are some teams usually best? If the latter, is this because they give better scholarships?
Is it normal to support a college team - or do most people support an NFL team (or both?)
Is the EPNS link, kindly supplied by Edward, the briefest way of keeping up to date with the scores and league tables?
Once again - many thanks to all of you who try to help me understand the differences between our two nations.
This college football is very strange to me. All our universities have sports teams but the crowd would usually be numbered in tens - at best. By the time one gets to university one's choice of sport team is fixed - some people will support their local team, but most will support one of the half dozen big teams. By this time those who are good at sport will have been signed up by a professional team. We don't have sport scholarships at all.
So a few questions.
Do all the players for a college team have to be studying at that college?
How long can one remain a student (not a problem for the navy of course)
Assuming only students can play, and one is only a student for three years, does this mean that the relatively fast turnover of players mean that teams can go from good to bad quite quickly - or are some teams usually best? If the latter, is this because they give better scholarships?
Is it normal to support a college team - or do most people support an NFL team (or both?)
Is the EPNS link, kindly supplied by Edward, the briefest way of keeping up to date with the scores and league tables?
Once again - many thanks to all of you who try to help me understand the differences between our two nations.
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