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the simplest way to measure this is I think simply the
the number of hours
%uh %uh during the season and out of the season
that young athletes are are expected and required to put in these days you know when I played
a
%uh we did not lift weights during the season for example football did not begin until
as I recall three in the afternoon so
you had to
leave your classes walk over get suited up and be on the field by three
practice to maybe five have dinner afterwards and a film meeting and by
you know seven seven-thirty
you would be free for the evening
and if you were so inclined as I was that meant going to the library till about midnight
uh
getting everything done that had to be done
going back to my dorm
sleeping in because I didn't have to get up for weights %uh and going through this this this
routine again the next day
today you know it's typical to have
weights early in the morning which
means not getting really a good night's sleep
among other things and in addition to taking up th time it means getting your classes
all completed by one o'clock because after that you have to go look at film and
then practice and then probably more film afterwards and so on
%uh it it's the the number of hours that are simply required
are
increased by at least a couple
every day if not more than that for some players
plus you know it's loss of
prime time for taking classes I I I wasn't limited in what I could take as a student
the way student athletes are today
and %uh
being able to sleep in
you know when you're twenty years old is not a bad thing for helping you be mentally alert
and so on
so that that that that's the simplest and obvious thing and and then
added onto that is simply the the enormously greater pressure
on on these young men today to play in this
athletic world so different from mine in that everything they do is televised everything
they do is on sports center on the highlights and all this sort of thing
the money that is that is being generated by the programs are
is so much greater so there's so much more pressure on their coaches and on the assistant
coaches and so on
so so
the environment in which you actually play football today is much more intense
but it's also in a very simpler way just more time consuming