So, doing the travel math conservatively, that probably means around 30 hours in the air, plus ground transportation and associated delays, probably 50ish hours in travel.
For a school like UW, 40 of that is probably during the 8 weeks of the season that overlap the academic calendar.
So, players now have several hours of practice through the week, plus weights, conditioning, film study, and any physical therapy they need post-game. They lose saturdays to games, Thursday evening and fridays in travel, and Sundays in recovery. Then they’re supposed to go to class and find whatever time is necessary to study (general guidance is minimum 1 hour outside for each hour in class…so for a minimum 12 credit load, you burn a full day on academics. They should also sleep a little over 2 days in a full week.
So, 2 days sleeping, 1 for a game, 1 for travel, 1 for recovery. Gotta think 5-6 hours of combined football activities M-Th, which is another day. And, 1 day for academics makes the full week. That leaves no time for eating, entertainment, or taking a leak…which I assume they all do.
At what point do we stop pretending that these are student athletes, and just admit that there’s no time for the “student” part?