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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just more evidence of how hard-core competitive athletics really has nothing to do with college.

I think we need to stop pretending that these sports have a connection to undergraduate education.

The sports that people pay to watch are more obviously misaligned.[/quote]

You have no idea what you are talking about. [/quote]

OK, please explain to me why the practice of semi-pro volleyball fits with a liberal arts undergrad education in New Hampshire.

What is the essential connection between these practices that I'm missing?

The modern university started out as theological and clerical training for men.  With a splash of med school at some locations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball

Volleyball seems to have been intended as basketball lite for YMCAs.

There is no necessary reason why NCAA teams need to exist.  It's just "fun" for most and a future career for the top players.  Universities do not need to prepare students for careers as pro athletes.  That could be handled by non-academic minor leagues.

Sports coaching has a lot of body control, abuse, and scandals associated with it.  It's even more shameful at a school where you'd hope for people to be a little smarter than average.

Please explain why these sports are a necessary part of the college experience.  Not about the fun of them, the why they simply must be part of the experience.  What with transfer portals, they are getting even more unhooked from whatever the original goals were.  There was a post on here complaining a few weeks ago about too many European advanced soccer players going to some state college down South where Europeans would otherwise never bother with. That's ridiculous.

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