granted I'm a newbie, but... watching the game tonight thought of an appropriate analogy.
I play basketball at a local church gym one night a week. (well, try to get there the one night a week they have it, really more like 2 nights a month.) There are some really good -surprisingly good- players there. I'm not one of them. But there are injuries. Not many, but I know of two guys that really hurt their knees.
A few miles away the TCU team plays. they're not great compared to other college teams, but every single person on the court was an absolute star in HS, and their benchwarmers could beat the best guys at the church gym 9 times out of 10. They have injuries too, and frankly, probably more often and more severe than we do. But they play basketball every day a week and also have a training staff, sports medicine specialists and rehab to get them going again.
bar/office(yikes)/grocery store=church gym
hobby=college basketball.
risks both places. the guy at the gym who's unemployed and his cobra gone-bad news. bad news for the guy that lost his starting job and any chance of playing too.
There's a price to be paid to play at the collegiate level, but the college athletes play more, play harder, and play much better than those of us playing at the church gym.
actually, the more I think about it, the more apt the analogy is...
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