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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So does a SLAC or any college/university really need to field a full range of sports at the highest levels (in D1, D2, D3, etc.)? I'm a big believer in a sound mind in a sound body. But wouldn't that be better achieved by offering more kids an opportunity to play a variety of sports in college, even at an entry level, than spending your time and capital on recruiting the best squash players whose parents have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their training leading up to college? [/quote]

The alumni want the sports. The administrators want the sports.

Sports are not going away in college.[/quote]

I think that response is a little facile as we are currently going through something of a sea change in college admissions. Why do administrators want the sports? And I don't think the big college football programs are going away anytime because they're big money makers, but a SLAC golf or equestrian program? Is maintaining that program but making it all walk on going to be a huge hit to alumni giving? It's the SLACs where the quantity of sports leads to a large percentage of the student body being recruited athletes who do not tend to come from diverse backgrounds.[/quote]

Because sports = jobs.  It's like the military industrial complex or any bureaucracy, just grows and grows and grows.  The more things a school does, the more people they hire, the more administrators they need.[/quote]

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