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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. The answer is straightforward. In college, athletes do better financially on average after graduation and they donate more. Academically, especially at competitive schools, they aren’t as good on average as the very top academic students but they aren’t far behind and hold their own academically, while also playing their sport at a very high level. Essentially, they launch successfully out of college at a higher rate than the rest of the student population and so bring more money back.

This.  Athletes are leaders.  They also are well rounded and disciplined.  Good at time management.  A good athlete will bring money to universities.

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Think about it.  In a modern workforce TEAMS get it done.  We could have funded a small African nation’s defense budget with our soccer expenditure but it isn’t really for the soccer - it’s for the training she would only receive in a high level corporation a decade later.  I do not know a single D1 athlete who did not end up at 6 figures (or higher).

Colleges recognize this so the competitive ones recruit athletes.  The nerds in short are not really worth much in aggregate.  They are likely selected much like a lotto ticket.  1 out of million might end up as Zuck.

It must be hard to accept but universities are businesses here and fundraising is their sales.  Athletes are key to the system.[/quote]

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