[Mick]

 The time demands on the student athletes should be LESS not more.

YES!!
One thing I've learned from the "Day in the Life" videos of Stanford athletes is how little, outside of classrooms, they are even in the presence of non-athlete students. Teammates seem to live together after freshman year, they eat together in the special athletic dining place, they do their training/therapy/team practice/traveling together, and they often take classes together. And they often spend at least parts of summers on campus together taking classes and training. The conventional wisdom is that, between (1) a varsity sport (2) academics and (3) a social life, they have time for only two out of three. That is not the full college experience.
(and maybe the non-athletes would benefit from the better food provided to the athletes)

My father in law walked on to the Stanford basketball team in the late-1950s. He said that was true back then...combining a varsity sport with academics meant there was literally no room for anything else. And my son told me that he went to the Ivies to play ball because their athletic time commitment averaged about 20 hours per week as opposed to the MPSF requirements of about 40 hours per week (once all activities were thrown in).

[Mick]

 The time demands on the student athletes should be LESS not more.

YES!!
One thing I've learned from the "Day in the Life" videos of Stanford athletes is how little, outside of classrooms, they are even in the presence of non-athlete students. Teammates seem to live together after freshman year, they eat together in the special athletic dining place, they do their training/therapy/team practice/traveling together, and they often take classes together. And they often spend at least parts of summers on campus together taking classes and training. The conventional wisdom is that, between (1) a varsity sport (2) academics and (3) a social life, they have time for only two out of three. That is not the full college experience.
(and maybe the non-athletes would benefit from the better food provided to the athletes)

My father in law walked on to the Stanford basketball team in the late-1950s. He said that was true back then...combining a varsity sport with academics meant there was literally no room for anything else. And my son told me that he went to the Ivies to play ball because their athletic time commitment averaged about 20 hours per week as opposed to the MPSF requirements of about 40 hours per week (once all activities were thrown in).