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[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]

I’m not but what does this have to do with anything?  [/quote]

NP here. Because the odds are those athletes who do “well” in their careers = make a very high income, and thus are more likely to in return as alums give more money over a longer period of time back to their university.  The schools are playing the long game here. By investing in their lacrosse programs, the schools are betting on those types of players, from certain family backgrounds, to go into high income careers after school and the school can cultivate them into high level school spirit and loyalty and hope they become boosters.

Know any college lax bros who are know investment bankers?  Hedge fund managers?  Developers?  Entrepreneurs?  [/quote]

It’s a completely unfair statement and here is why: they don’t admit the kids with those lower stats (or exclude those with higher ones) - instead opting for the lower stats athlete.  It’s then impossible to gather any data on how those kids would have fared had they been accepted or how they fared elsewhere.  [/quote]

PP here. It doesn’t matter if you think (or I think) it’s an unfair statement, it’s true. Lacrosse, for example, is the fastest growing sports (in terms of budget) in NCAA division 1 over the last 15 years. Why?  Is it because of the revenue stream? Are schools making big bucks off of tv rights (I mean sometimes you can find a lacrosse game on ESPN123453827 but rarely, you have to stream the games)? Are they making money off of ticket sales?  Are they making money from all the people buying their players’ lacrosse jerseys bought off of fanatics.com?  From what?

It’s just a fact that UMC to Upper class high income kids play lacrosse. It’s an expensive sport to play, period. It’s a homogenous sport with very little diversity. Go to the lacrosse forum here on DCUM.  These kids aren’t trying to play college lacrosse so they can become professional lacrosse players post college, get big endorsements, etc.  These rich kids who play lacrosse and go onto college to play lacrosse statistically on average go on to high income careers (whether they work for mommy and daddy or go to business or law school and work in banking of big law for example). Statistically they just do. 100% of them, no, but a high percentage do. And when looking for return on investment or bang for your buck, colleges are betting on these kids to graduate and start donating back to their university in higher numbers than other sports. And history has proven this to be true and so the cycle continues.

I work in development/advancement. This is a well known strategy in higher ed. I’m sorry if you can find a few antidotes that go against the theory but by abs large it’s true.[/quote]

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