The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for more than 380,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 49,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA Championships in Division I, II and III sports.
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The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for 408,364 (2007) student-athletes in 28 men's and 27 women's intercollegiate sports with 17,713 teams participating at more than one thousand member schools.
"About 328,836 student-athletes participated in NCAA-sponsored sports in 1996-97. The number is slightly higher than for 1995-96. Gains were seen primarily in women's sports, but participation figures for men show small increases from the 1995-96 academic year. Football remained the sport with the most participants. There were approximately 53,984 football players at active and provisional member institutions in all divisions. That number is up 84 participants from 1995-96."
Reference: NCAA News Digest, July 20, 1998
Link: www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=9053
very few college athletes will ever play professionally in their paticular sport. For the main sports like Basketball, football, etc. less than 2 percent of the college athletes will go pro.
NCAA FBS, NCAA FCS, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, so 5 divisions. There is also junior college football of which there are two divisions, NJCAA and CCCAA.
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You can enter the NFL Draft with three years of college education. Many football players will redshirt as a freshman which is the NCAA legal way of giving a student five eligible years of football at college. You may see people enter the draft as a sophomore, however the redshirted so it is actually their 3rd year in college.
NCAA says 125 players is the max per college, 85 on scholarship max. Figure 20% to 25% are Seniors. My best estimate is average 20 to 25. Of those, 300 to 325 total get agents and enter the NFL Draft. 255 get drafted. Some get to play.
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The exact number of Division 1 college football players is unknown. However there are a total of 80,000 college football players across all divisions.
A lot of Players do because of the stress of school and football
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