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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the way, football programs seldom cut.  You may not play, but you can usually be on the team.  And, coaches are hardly paid for the time they put into the effort.[/quote]

Maybe your school doesn't but most do.  I can't think of a single school where a majority of students are on the football team. Typically it's just a small percentage, and lots of students don't make the team at all.  It is definitely exclusionary in most schools.  Many schools are highly competetive in sports and hold a high bar to qualify to participate in any way at all.

Also, I think you underestimate the costs - sports facilities cost a not insignificant amount of money to build and maintain, there are lights, sprinkler systems, fertilizer and turfgrass management, mowing, et cetera - or alternately, a not-insignificant cost associated with indoor facilities.  In DC many outdoor facilities are provided by DC Parks and Recreation but for the schools to use, so the figure is hidden from the schools budget and it's not really selling a couple of hotdogs and bags of chips that's paying for it.[/quote]

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