A short YouTube video by Trent Lorem (a former college quarterback) comparing Division I and NAIA college football based on his experience and a friend's experience at a Division I program. He highlights key differences such as time commitment (D1 players have much busier daily schedules) and the nature of workouts, noting his NAIA schedule felt less overwhelming.
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The difference between Division 1 college football and NAIA college football. Now, I myself played at NAA school, and I also had a friend who played at Washington, a team that was in the national championship, the team that was in the national championship this last season. And so I figured I'd talk about the differences between my program and his program. So that way you guys can get a good feel for this. If you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Lorem. I'm a former college quarterback. I help recruits just like you get college football scholarships. Now, I could go on the list, list of differences, but I'll just list off a few key ones. The number one is time. For my friend over at a D1 school. He didn't have a lot of time. They had practice early, they had meetings after that, they had workouts. He had class. He was getting home late. Compared to me at an A school, I mean, yeah, sure, I had practice and class and all that, but honestly, my schedule wasn't like, super busy. I could still live my life. Didn't feel like it was necessarily overwhelming. Was I busier than most? Sure, I had a lot of, like, commitments with practice and everything like that, but for the most part, it wasn't too bad. The workouts were other big difference. Now, we both had similar workouts. I'd say ours at an NA program wasn't terrible as far as how hard the workouts were.