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Cons: at least the pretense of learning things and passing courses

I've met and drank with some minor league baseball guys before and obviously I won't speak for all of them, but they often aren't really uh... college material.

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College baseball also hasn't been forced to be the minor leagues like college football has; some say that many of the college students playing foot ball aren't really uh... college material either.

[mmmpop]

Probably true but I lived in a dorm at a large SEC state school and knew plenty of both athletes and baseball guys were 10x smarter 100% of the time.