“They have the adjustment to college, the adjustment to new academic standards, they’re possibly living far away from home, they might be doing things on their own they never knew how to do,” said Dr. Carmen Tebbe Priebe, the director of psychological resources in the Oklahoma athletic department. “And then you add the pressure of a new system, new coaches, playing time versus not-playing time. Physically, it’s demanding. The schedules they have are not the schedules they had in high school. It’s just grueling across the board.”

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