Our son is not a chatty one, so I have some questions. I have seen that the D1 teams are practicing and scrimmaging with pads on (at least uppers.) I know D3 rules say they can't even wear helmets in the spring. Did I get that right so far? I thought most of the schools had a red/white, gold/blue or whatever team color game at the end of spring practice. Do they wear pads for that or am I wrong about the whole pad thing. My son is in the NJAC. One school he looked at last spring actually did get to practice in pads because they had a special out-of-country game that they get to do every 3 years. I was mainly curious about the spring game so we can make sure to ask him about it. The school website has no spring info posted yet. Any other info about spring practice would be appreciated as well. Also, is is different between the conferences and should I post this in his conference?

ROWAN GRADUATE GET TRAINING CAMP CONTRACT WITH PHILADELPHIA SOUL. http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20120225/SPORTS/302250017/Local-man-gets-chance-Philadelphia-Soul?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

Hope this is just the first step to a great career. Congratulations Matt!

I forgot to ask....how do the players like the 4 hour+ bus rides and hotel stay? Do they get meal money or anything?(Rowan and TCNJ, since they are state schools I doubt they have much budget).  My son has a friend who plays at a large D1 school and they get $50 each week because they spend every Fri night before the game in a hotel, even for home games. I was really surprised to hear that (the $ part).

My son will probably be playing in the NJAC next year. Rowan or TCNJ. I noticed a lot of games are far away and I was surprised. Can anybody tell me how many fans (parents) travel to the away games up in NY, PA and CT? I assume the teams go up and stay over the night before?