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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s the problem? How else are they supposed to field their teams?[/quote]

This is backwards thinking. The mission of a college is not to field athletic teams and then fill in the rest of the academic seats with students as an afterthought. The mission of a school is to educate students. Because you want students to exercise and be fit and develop school spirit, you let them form athletic teams and compete with other schools. This is how college athletics started. You field the teams that current student are interested in playing, and you field those teams with existing students. If no one wants to play a given sport this year, you drop that team until enough kids sign up; but given the number of students athletes in the country, this is unlikely to be a problem anywhere. Pick your college, then try out for the team when you get there.

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Mission of the college is to develop young people.  Not just to educate.[/quote]

This is why we call them developmental institutions and not educational institutions?
This conceit that they are "developing" young people is really a euphemism for socializing and indoctrinating.[/quote]

stop trying to make "developmental institutions" happen.  They're called "college" or "university", that's it. It's not Amherst Developmental Institution. FFS[/quote]

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