I play division 3 football at Texas Lutheran University. I always knew I wanted to play college football, and it’s great. I was recruited by a handful of d3 schools. There is another college very close to where I live called Austin College and is very prestigious and a great school. I was recruited by them first and I was WANTED by them. Really bad. They really wanted me, and I knew that. When Texas Lutheran offered me, I didn’t really sit myself down and consider all the pros and cons.
Texas Lutheran has a really good football team, and is a good school. Austin college has an average football team and is a great school and isn’t 5 hours away like TLU is. I’m thinking about transferring… I want to continue to play football as well. Both colleges have my major.
I posted another thread about drugs and the football team. I highly suggest to see what i said in that thread. Long story short, for road games, the “leaders” on the team smoked weed in the stairwell of the hotels they stay at, and got caught by the coaches. The coaches took zero action and did nothing about it. I surprised me because the coaches advocate to have character and do the right thing…but yet it’s okay for players to smoke week? Especially before a game? The coaches tell us to look up to the upperclassmen. But all they do is smoke weed and go out and embarrass the university. The coaches bypass drug testing deliberately because they know ‘key players’ will be ruled ineligible to play for NCAA violations of drug use.
I don’t know what to ask myself or consider. I am a freshmen and in my first semester. I want to transfer because I don’t like the location or atmosphere of the college I am attending. It’s not fun… Campus is dead on the weekends, everyone goes back home. Classes are going well, I’m making all A’s, but I’m not having a good college experience. It’s not that I’m “homesick” I just hate the inconvenience of being 5 hours away from home. The town that TLU is in isn’t that great, I don’t like Texas Hill country. Being raised in north Texas I’ve always viewed it as home and I still do. I don’t know what to tell my parents… Or even where to start but where I am at doesn’t feel right. Can someone help?