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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYU does not focus on athletics. [/quote]

Not true...NYU recruits

Just because the students at a particular school generally don't care about sports, [b]that doesn't mean the school doesn't care about sports.[/b] Many schools are trying to build their athletics programs so they can attract DIFFERENT types of kids to their schools, i.e., kids who want to attend a school where sports are important/valued.[/quote]

100% The reality is, sports attract students and bring in donors.  Look at schools who win national championships - or even just do well.  George Mason's men's basketball team made the Final Four in 2006.  I attended games when I was a student there in the 1990's.  The student section was pathetic but I've always enjoyed watching games and I got in free.  Fast forward to the 2000s and they hired a really good coach, JIm Larranaga.  In the 2005-06 season, he took the team all the way to the Final Four.  It was crazy the amount of fans that started showing up at games.  The next year, the arena was packed.  In 2020, I took my junior in high school on an official tour of the school.  The video they showed in the information session kept highlighting the team's run to the Final Four - an event that happened [b]14 years[/b] earlier.  They obviously are using that winning season to attract new students and it must be working or they wouldn't have highlighted it as much as they did.  [/quote]

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