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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do highly academic schools recruit athletes for unprofitable sports? Is it essentially "paying" a student to provide a winning team for the academic students to play in (or just be proud to wear the same colors as?), to indirectly recruit academic students?

I'm sure people get excited to go to Duke or Bama for their champion teams in premier sports, but not one cares who the Ivy League Lax champs are. [/quote]

You actually picked a bad example...usually the Ivy League LAX champ is ranked top 10 nationally and in many years an Ivy team is the national champion.  Those games are fairly well-attended in the scheme of things.

Perhaps more accurately, nobody cares who the Ivy League XCountry, fencing, squash, sailing champs may be.  Honestly, nobody cares who even are the national champions in fencing, squash, sailing and other multiple niche sports.

Yes, it is a backdoor way to recruit wealthy kids for sports like squash or sailing or fencing.  At least for squash, it is also a backdoor way to recruit wealthy international kids since they dominate the sport internationally.

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