Originally Posted By: 69GTX
Originally Posted By: Reddy45
Can someone remind me again why universities need sports in order to function? The last time I checked, a bachelor's, master's or PhD are obtained through study..not through physical activity.
The biggest state university Football and Basketball programs (top 25 schools) bring in a huge amount of money to the university...most being very profitable to start with. Big donors pony up for that kind of stuff. It's a drawing card for more donations to build more student facilities and the best students too.
Best students? Lol.
You must not understand how the real, academic portion of a University works.
But I'm sure you can guess... money. As in grant work, as in funded research and published papers and graduated students with advanced degrees. That's how a tier status works in the real side of a university.
And only the tiniest fraction, if any athletes in most of these programs are of the caliber of student to go on to achieve such things for their school or go to grad school.
Sure, sports bring money, but title IX killed many men's varsity sports and sent the equivalent of football and basketball budgets into unprofitable women's sports with huge numbers of women getting scholarships to perform poorly on lousy teams.
But that's not really a gig on women's sports. Women should have the same opppirtunity to play sports as men. Thing is, none of it should come from the University's funds, particularly fir scholarships.