From the ridiculous amounts of hours that Division 1 student athletes spend in practice to their lack of academic prowess, there are many reasons why D-1sports should no longer exist. In large schools it is not common for everyone to know everyone but at most ones students are never mixed into student body. At most D-3 schools, student-athletes may room with each other but most of the time they are in the same building as regular students. When students know their athletes, imagine how much more excited the student body would be for each game. Another advantage for the sport itself would be the lack of athletic scholarships. If a coach would want to recruit a poor kid, they would have to make sure it was a poor kid with good grades so that they can give them academic money. Since colleges should be about expanding a kid's horizon and not just a minor league for the NFL or NBA, maybe those leagues should look into another way to develop talent for those not able to afford college. Or maybe the NCAA could loosen up their amateur status and allow for professional teams to pay for a kid's education and allow him to develop in college. Since coaches won't have scholarships they won't be tempted to play scholarship kids over walk ons even if the walk on is better because no one on the team would have a guaranteed spot, making sure each kid works that much harder to reach the next level. Another thing would be that with limited practice time students athletes would be able to focus on their academics instead of being an athlete. If this happens, maybe D-1 athletes will be able to get good jobs out of college, I don't have numbers but from what I've seen on TV, not all of them have great lives. D-3 athletics make both the school and the athletes better, a few weeks ago a saw a picture of a Penn State athlete signing an autograph for a fellow student, maybe that says a lot about both what happened at Penn State and the D-1 Athletics in general.
D-2 Sports are just poor schools who want to play at a D-1 level, no school chooses to be D-2
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