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[quote=Anonymous]My son was a state champion in his sport. What’s really a bummer is that he can’t even play his sport except at club level at his large university. (At least he gets a club team though but it’s frankly not that strong.). All the other players on the D1 well know team are from another country or Olympic-level athletes. There are only 2-3 spots for his postion, in a university with tens of thousands of students.

To really play in college, we would have had him go to a D3 school that would have been maybe an academic fit, but $60-90k tuition even with aid, plus much less of a social fit for him.

The real problem is college sports like football and basketball are too much like a business, and detract from athletics being what they are supposed to be for most college students. They are sexist (no women can play football) and they shortchange all the other non revenue sports. Plus they twist the focus at college to something other than its primary intent: education.

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