A fairly accurate summary, but I'd like to question one point and add another: "Burnout - If you're a good player in high school, you probably spent at least some time memorizing stuff." I'm not sure about that. I, for one, have never memorized facts specifically in order to play QB. In addition, there's the entire "generalists v. specialists" problem. A lot of the point-scoring in high-school competitions is done by players who know a bit of everything and not a great deal of anything, and (most importnatly) know it quickly. They can do this because a) HS questions tend to be based on more "general" knowledge than college questions, especially the early clues (which mostly require a specialist to answer); b) the presence of "category killers" -- players who are only effective in one field, but are murderously skilled in that field -- is much more common in college, especially due to the use of majors in study; and c) the amount of knowledge required to compete in all (or at least most) fields in high school might conceivably be gained by a high school student, but it would not be feasible for much of anyone to do the same at the college level, and especially early in college. (Vik Vaz is a notable exception.) Most effective college players, and especially most effective underclassmen, have one or two fields where they can compete with anyone, and usually at least one or two fields where they're almost completely helpless. In short, being a generalist in high school is like being a basketball center in college: you may be good against the competition you find there, but there's a good chance you're not tall enough for the NBA.
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