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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's not the same level. But the NFL is so much of a 'team' sport that the differences in respective skill sets isn't so obviously manifested on a play to play basis.
For instance, a battle in the trenches in the college game is going to be between two players that are obviously inferior to a pro equivalent. However, they offset and the results are almost exactly the same as they would be in a pro game.
In college basketball, those errors are just incredibly stark because there are 10 guys on the court instead of 22 and so much of the game is done at an individual level. A guy with bad handles is just obvious. A guy that can't hit an uncontested 12 footer is just smacking you right in the fact.
And because everyone on the court shoots and/or handles the ball at some point or another, there's simply a higher rate of flat out obvious clanks or guys dribbling the ball off their shoes. It's not that the disparity is any wider, it's that it's more clearly manifest in what you see.
The difference in the levels of play is far more apparent in a college basketball game than it is a college football game. It's the nature of the respective sports.
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Fair enough. But all sports can be broken down based on number of participants and influences on the game by a single player.
I happen to think that the stark difference between a single player making an impact on a CFB vs an NFL game is very apparent.
I thoroughly enjoy all 4 sports we're talking about here so it doesn't hold that much importance for me. They all fit into their own time and nowadays plenty of coverage of all 4 is available for anyone to get their fill.