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Did these cousins graduate in and around the same… by FL_Irish

…year as you? If so, let me suggest that your relatives’ experience of what it was like to be a Division I athlete in the early 1980s may not be terribly representative of what things are like almost half a century later.

My wife has spent her entire career in college athletics in the Big Ten, Big 12, and Ivy League. I also work in higher education. As a result of my wife’s career, I am frequently asked to mentor student-athletes. I see on a daily basis what the life of a Division I student-athlete is currently like.