COPYING AND PASTING A POST FROM FarminCy from another thread as he has experience on many things people here DON'T which still doesn't stop them from posting their pearls of wisdom just the same....
There is just a ton of misinformation going all around here.
As a former D2 football player I am amazed at what some on here think it is, it's not just a bunch on no talent hacks lining up to play football.
D2 has a lot of talented players in it and for those thinking the workouts will be so much easier you are mistaken. We have all seen Yancy's treadmill workout which is cool but trust me when I say there are top tier strength and conditioning programs at D2, NWMSU is one that has a top tier program.
D2 is loaded with guys that were borderline D1 scholarship material and chose to take scholarships at a lower tier instead of a preferred walk on. I am an example of that, I had scholarship offers from ISU and Minnesota before I got seriously hurt my senior year. I wasn't cleared by signing day and both those schools pulled the offer and gave me preferred walk on. I still had scholarship offers to 1-AA and D2 schools. So I chose to play at a D2 school which fit me the best. There are lots of kids with similar stories at D2 and lots of D1 transfers playing at D2. And trust me when I say football at the D2 level is a physical and mental grind just like D1. D2 players put in just as many hours with workouts, practice, training table, study table, PT, travel, etc. as D1. The only difference is we don't have huge multi million dollar facilities for it. Instead you are in a building sharing those areas with the basketball team, baseball team, etc. Nice facilities just not football specific. Is there more talent at D1, absolutely, but to act like D2 teams are junior high teams is crazy.
And yes it isn't as likely to get to the NFL but your crazy to think it isn't an option at D2. I had multiple individual workouts with NFL teams (obviously didn't end up on a team) and I played with three guys who made it on NFL teams and against many guys who made it to the NFL. Just because D2 players aren't normally called in the first round doesn't mean they don't end up in the NFL. Northwest Missouri for example had two guys this spring sign free agent contracts. Point is if you're talented enough the NFL will find you, especially at a school like NWMSU.
I guess I don't feel the anger towards him that alot of people on here are. ISU didn't work for him, so what. I loved my time at a school of about 10,000 students and am not sure a school the size of ISU would have worked for me. Some people don't like big schools, no reason to talk about him the way people have been on here.
