Another thing to consider,
If ~24 players travel to away games in season (or whatever # it is now), and you are the one of the ones left behind, it can get very lonely. One of my son's teammates joined a fraternity for this reason, even though it was discouraged by the coach and the baseball team was in many ways like a fraternity (complete with 2 baseball houses next door to each other).
I went to a what we called a "suitcase school". Although I lived an hour from school, I spent many weekends studying and catching up on sleep on campus. And it just came to me, that I slept many hours in the library lol.