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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are talking about all sport like lacrosse or crew or field hockey, these recruits statistically will presumptively be successful in their chosen careers.[/quote]

What a flimsy statement.  I am sure kids who play lacrosse or crew are disproportionately from wealthy families and have grown up with lots of opportunities.  They aren’t successful because of their sport.  (Not even getting to what is the definition of success and what stats are you using).

Yes, OP, I find colleges favoritism to atheists to be so bizarre and frustrating.  College is not an athletic endeavor.[/quote]

Athletics help fund most of the fancy buildings your studious kids study in.[/quote]

Source for this claim?[/quote]

Eh, usually it's actually the other way around. Regular students are paying special "facilities fees" to subsidize fancy new stadiums, locker rooms and even massage parlors for the foopball buffs.[/quote]

Yep, the only exceptions are SEC, Big 10 schools, and a few other outliers. Remember, despite being in the ACC and taking in enormous sums as a result Maryland's athletic department ran such a deficit that they had to cut sports and switch to a conference that none of their alumni wanted to be in. [/quote]

In Virginia, UVA runs an athletics deficit even with student fees.  Virginia Tech has a slight athletics surplus, but they do it with student fees.  If they didn't have student fees, they would have a deficit.  The number of schools that can run athletics surpluses without student fees is very, very small.[/quote]

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