"Some of the people pushing for it say it will be better for the student athlete," Pecknold said. "Well, I couldn't disagree with that more. If you play that 20-year-old [junior] year, like Landon Smith did, then you go to college, he only gets to play three years. He loses a year. How is that better for Landon Smith [a 22-year-old sophomore who scored the winning goal against BC in the national semifinals]? Or plenty of others who have done that? I struggle with that. Some argue they should go to college earlier; it's better for them. Well, it's not."