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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Who the hell cares if its a division 1 school? You sound a little unhinged.[/quote]
You're kidding right?  This certainly wins the most ridiculous comment of the thread, maybe the month. 
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How is that comment ridiculous?  College sports appeals to some college students, but no everybody.  Of course when you in the hollers of Blacksburg there is not a lot going on outside of college athletics so I can understand the importance of them down there.  It's not like students are going to a Broadway play, or the Kennedy Center on the weekends.  Many fine schools place little emphasis on sports like MIT or NYU. There are starting to be more calls to eliminate college athletics.  There are plenty of good reasons to deemphasize, if not eliminate them.

http://t.washingtonmonthly.com/washingtonmonthly/#!/entry/just-eliminate-college-sports,52cc3de2025312186cb247fc

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/sports/at-spelman-dropping-sports-in-favor-of-fitness.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2012/05/07/would-banning-college-football-actually-help-academics/

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+1000
Our kids actively looked for schools that [b]de[/b]-emphasized the whole sports culture.  There are many kids like that; look at the popularity of the SLAC.  Anyone who thinks Division I sports are the end-all be-all to college selection sounds like bit of a knuckle-dragger.[/quote]

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