Quote Originally Posted by bjf123 View Post
How many of those 105 never sniff the playing field?


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Over the course of a 3-4 year college career, very few never play any. Most players quit, or transfer to a lower level, if they aren’t seeing any playing time at all by their 2nd year. Most coaches do not want to use their starters on special teams, which make up about 1/3rd of the total plays in a football game. There are usually a lot of freshman and sophomore’s on special teams. Most starters do not play every down, either. Coaches rotate players in to keep them fresh. And then there are injuries. It’s getting fairly rare that any player makes it a whole season without some kind of injury. A school like UC can usually hang pretty good with an SEC school…starter to starter. It’s when the 2nd and 3rd teams are competing against each other, that they really can be dominant. There’s a big drop off in talent from 1st to 2nd team at a school like UC. Not so much at a school like OSU. They just don’t have the quality depth the more successful programs have.