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To: Humbug

LOL. I’m afraid that would be a task of Herculean proportions. But seriously, I keep hearing “you can’t do this, it will hurt the program, school, players, coaches, tradition, etc”. Why is it that schools such as MIT and the University of Chicago seem to be doing just fine without athletics? Probably because they made a decision long ago to concentrate fully on academics instead of sports.


87 posted on 07/23/2012 12:56:29 PM PDT by wrcase
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To: wrcase

Why is it that schools such as MIT and the University of Chicago seem to be doing just fine without athletics?


MIT had a decent baseball team back when I played against them. Their football team does all right as well.


89 posted on 07/23/2012 1:00:55 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: wrcase
Why is it that schools such as MIT and the University of Chicago seem to be doing just fine without athletics? Probably because they made a decision long ago to concentrate fully on academics instead of sports.

Good point.

Growing up I was really into college sports, but increasingly it really has become little more than a minor league system operating on college campuses.

96 posted on 07/23/2012 1:39:28 PM PDT by Humbug
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