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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are wrong in my experience about the baseball discussion. Even high-level D1 college baseball isn't going to impress many people who are not really into baseball. College baseball gets terrible ratings and a large percentage of the best players skip college baseball. I have enjoyed taking to a big tech coworker about his team's trip to Omaha in college but most talk to him and our coworker who played D3 in the same way. If anything, people are more interested in hearing from the D3 person because it was a very high academic school. Beyond some of the analytics talk in our tech setting, baseball is more like swimming or track than football or basketball from a conversation and networking perspective.

The few people who played basketball and football are the ones I think it helps with networking quite a bit (if D1 or really high academic) since so many people want to talk about it and those sports, assuming they know more given their history. MBA and JD programs also love their former revenue athletes. Olympians and the small number of people who played professionally do very well in the cocktail setting. [/quote]

Yeah…anyone not into any sport doesn’t really care about talking about the sport.

However, we have a guy in our firm who played baseball at MIT…and absolutely nobody is interested in talking about MIT baseball, including the guy himself.

Absolutely nobody except an extremely small group and only around the Olympics talks about swimming.  You have to go past LAX, soccer and all sorts of other sports until you hit swimming…and even fewer care about college swimming vs Olympic swimming.
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