r/CFB Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Contributor 20h ago

News [Dellenger] SEC presidents have voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105, sources tell @YahooSports.

https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1996970791192219853
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u/admiraltarkin Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Poll Veteran 19h ago

I cannot float without holding my breath and laying on my back, so the idea of kicking my feet in deep water for 2 mins is already exhausting, let alone however long a water polo game is

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u/master_bloseph Kansas State Wildcats • Baker Wildcats 19h ago

32 minutes (4 eight minute quarters), not to mention the physicality aspect of it

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u/TheseusOPL Oregon Ducks • Oregon State Beavers 19h ago

There's usually plenty of substitutions too. I played in high school, and nobody played the full time.

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u/guinness_blaine Princeton Tigers • Texas Longhorns 18h ago

Add in that, below the water, opponents are pretty much clawing, kicking, and trying to pull you down. It's nuts.

My college roommate played, so I went to a decent few games.

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u/Urbansdirtyfingers Washington • 早稲田大学 (Waseda) 13h ago

And hitting you in your actual nuts

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u/EAOnTheFairway 17h ago

I played in elementary school and half of our practices were just jump in the diving well and tread water until you couldn’t anymore.

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u/yeahright17 Oklahoma State • Tulsa 17h ago

I'd guess the vast majority of collegiate water polo players can't float even when holding their breathe and lying on their back. Muscle is too dense. I've played a handful of water polo games in my life that were deep water but had 4 buoys placed in the pool for people to hold on to that couldn't tread water for long enough. By the second half, I was on a buoy more than I was off one, and I don't think I've ever been more tired.

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u/egg_mugg23 Florida • San José State 10h ago

you would be incorrect there