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DGwithagrey, My husband played big-time college football and pledged (this was back in the stone ages), but, he said that the time committment for football was HUGE (and it is worse now, my son's bf plays for Rice and it is 7 days a week, 12 months a year - and we're talking Rice -so SEC big time football is going to be INTENSE). They may want to dig in a bit in their sport before pledging.
My husband says that back in his day, he really didn't do much with the fraternity, he couldn't have a "normal" pledgeship because he couldn't attend the scheduled events. He worried that they would kick him out, but they didn't, they were glad he was a member of XX, but he didn't have the same kind of bond with the other guys. In fact, the true bond he had was with the other members of the football team - blood, sweat and tears kind of bond.
Not trying to discourage you, but just laying out the realities of the situation as I know them.
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