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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] And questioning the contribution of student athletes to the quality of our higher education is legitimate. You think athletics is important to higher education and others do not. Not giving so many sports to tennis players means more spots available to students with higher level academic interests.[/quote]

You set up a false dichotomy here.  The tennis player might be a student with high academic interests.

My DS was a recruited athlete - and NMF and valedictorian.  Three of the six recruits in his class are now in med school (and if you know anything about med school admissions, you recognize that’s a huge academic achievement).  Athletes can be academically ambitious as well.[/quote]

That’s great, but you can’t ignore how cost-prohibitive the level of sports needed to be recruitable are. Club soccer, club swimming, AAU basketball, national level travel baseball teams—none of that is cheap or free. Then there’s sports like rowing, squash and golf that are rare.

A kid can be a great lacrosse player, but if they have poor, uninvolved parents, they’re not getting recruited.[/quote]

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