For all the anti college football geeks...

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Anonymous wrote:What on earth does this even mean. I totally disagree with you, football has absolutely nothing to do with college education. It’s a waste of money.

Neither does violin, or piano, or chess, or fencing, or crew, or squash, or ballet, or fraternities/sororities, or ultimate frisbee, any number of other extracurriculars. That’s why are called extracurricular. Yet I would not want to attend a college that didn’t have vibrant extracurriculars. No one is saying you have got enjoy football, but that’s your value judgment; it isn’t fact.

So now music isn't an academic subject?

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Anonymous wrote:College football is in the fabric of the College experience. Look no further than College Gameday today at UT and today's slate of games. GA @ TX tonight will be epic.

Go vols!!

Going to be a good one, sadium will be electric! Students having the time of their lives!

Actually this game is sucking.

Says the Vols fan...

Rocky Top

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Hook 'Em Horns

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What kind of dummy picks a school due to football?!

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of dummy picks a school due to football?!

I know my dad was blown away that I had no interest in Penn state or Michigan - I think they both sent me auto admit letters in the mail in the 90s.

He really only thought it would be cool to go to those football games.

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Anonymous wrote:Chase that ball up and down the field! My dog does it, and you can enjoy watching other humans do it (not even doing it yourself). Go, sportsing!

My brother and I were top flight NCAA D1 athletes. I was the mediocre one at a 3.8 GPA but did go on to the absolute top of the class at a top law school. My brother 4.0 phi beta kappa and went on to become a world renowned PhD economist. We were good students because we were mentally resilient and valued that personal element. We were poor and paid for every penny of our schooling on our own. In interviews I am consistently curious about people such as yourself in terms of mental toughness and resilience. Of course people and hires are important and we dig deeper but your dismissal of sportsing would cause a deeper dig. This is not to say athletics would be required but rather a wholesale dismissal of the same without any recognition of what they can bring raises questions. I went to the second best (ratings) that gives athletic scholarships and my teammates are remarkably successful. They all were tough and resilent.

I'm sure strongmen, weightlifters, ice skaters and dancers are also tough and resilient. Why don't they get as many scholarships? You'd think institutions of higher learning would find a better sport to exorbitantly fund than the one that causes CTE even in those who only play at the college level.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/25/concussion-study-nfl-cte-college-players

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of dummy picks a school due to football?!

Most 18 year olds will take solid football schools like Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, or USC over more academically "prestigious" schools like Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Swarthmore, or Amherst. They want an experience that transcends the library. They want to have fun and be a part of something larger than themselves. I think it's pretty healthy.

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Alumni life is more fun if you can follow and discuss your alma mater’s athletics every week. The USNWR ranking report is an annual thing and who really wants to talk about this in public? Most big state schools still offer very solid academics.
I have friends who attended Ivy League schools (not HYP) / top LACs and regret their decisions and would now choose a big state school instead. They don’t feel connected to their respective alma maters…

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Anonymous wrote:Alumni life is more fun if you can follow and discuss your alma mater’s athletics every week. The USNWR ranking report is an annual thing and who really wants to talk about this in public? Most big state schools still offer very solid academics.
I have friends who attended Ivy League schools (not HYP) / top LACs and regret their decisions and would now choose a big state school instead. They don’t feel connected to their respective alma maters…

I have friends who attended P5s for the money and now wish they had chosen HYP. It’s called being middle aged.

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Anonymous wrote:There is something cathartic about being able to take a break from the books on a cool fall Saturday and hit the stadium with 60k+ of your fellow fans and watch a great game. If you have never experienced it you wouldn't know.

There are tons of ways to take a break from books on a Saturday that would actually be cathartic and football is not in the top 100. Sitting in a stadium while people cheer for people to get concussions and physically assault others while running a ball back and forth holds zero appeal.

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UGA will now see even more applications this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Alumni life is more fun if you can follow and discuss your alma mater’s athletics every week. The USNWR ranking report is an annual thing and who really wants to talk about this in public? Most big state schools still offer very solid academics.
I have friends who attended Ivy League schools (not HYP) / top LACs and regret their decisions and would now choose a big state school instead. They don’t feel connected to their respective alma maters…

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Alumni life is more fun if you can follow and discuss your alma mater’s athletics every week. The USNWR ranking report is an annual thing and who really wants to talk about this in public? Most big state schools still offer very solid academics.
I have friends who attended Ivy League schools (not HYP) / top LACs and regret their decisions and would now choose a big state school instead. They don’t feel connected to their respective alma maters…

Princeton has the highest percentage of alumni giving of any school and their reunions have like 65% attendance for the 5-years.

It depends on the school and the culture.

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Anonymous wrote:UGA will now see even more applications this year.

Why? You do know the football team has been strong for years, right? Some kid isn’t now randomly discovering GA because they beat Texas.

It’s schools like JMU that get the most bang for sports because they are generally not known outside VA.

Also, a school like George Mason when they had their final 4 run.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of dummy picks a school due to football?!

I know people who looked at/attended SMU and BC in the 1980's because of the Pony Express and Doug Flutie.

It worked out for them.