The SEC’s argument as to why Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh shouldn’t conduct spring practices in Florida isn’t just about the location, it’s about when it’s being held.
Many administrators in college football have said that spring break should be a time for students to unwind as demands on student-athletes should be curbed, not ramped.
Well, the Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) released on Friday the results to a survey it conducted in relation to time commitment to athletics.
Here are some of the key findings:
- FBS football (43 percent) had the highest percentage of participants who said time demands are more than what they were told during the recruiting process.
- About 40 percent support eliminating non-conference mid-week games.
- About 49 percent supported lifting the cap on hours spent on a sport per week in-season but keeping a cap per day.
- Only 13 percent supported a cap of more than 20 hours per week.
- Only 11 percent supported a cap of more than four hours per day.
- About 45 percent supported two off-days per week while in-season.
- About 69 percent agreed that a travel day should not count as an off-day during the season.
- About 15 percent said that if they had been more aware of the time demands in their sport, they wouldn’t have attended a Division I college, the highest rate of all sports.
Born and raised in Gainesville, Talal joined SDS in 2015 after spending 2 years in Bristol as an ESPN researcher. Previously, Talal worked at The Gainesville Sun.
