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2020-05-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Professor: Colleges Using Coronavirus as Excuse to Cut Sports Programs
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-26 00:33|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 "Dropping these sports, you’re likely losing bodies, and that counts against your overall enrollment,"

A numbers game then is it? Nothing to do with actual education. Thanks for the confirmation.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-26 00:40||   2020-05-26 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 If only they did it 100 years ago.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 00:42||   2020-05-26 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 None of that Mens sana in corpore sano silliness, please, we have Studies studies to get taught.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-26 00:47||   2020-05-26 00:47|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Isn't it more like: "sine litteris, et ad munus collegium gradu", TW?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 01:11||   2020-05-26 01:11|| Front Page Top

#5 I have no idea, g(r)omgoru. It was the trailing daughters and Mr. Wife who studied Latin — I only know the common culture bits.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-26 01:30||   2020-05-26 01:30|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Neither am I - just use Google Translate.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 01:36||   2020-05-26 01:36|| Front Page Top

#7 When I was at CWRU I accidentally saw a down of one college football game while looking out a high rise window near the stadium.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 06:08||   2020-05-26 06:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Back to A&Ms, practical studies that the state needs for commerce and health, a return on investment. Let private institutions cover the rest without public subsidizes.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-26 06:59||   2020-05-26 06:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Dunno, seems to me some colleges are sports teams with a library attached for show. Read that a winning football team was a real money-maker.... you didn't think all those wymyn's studies programs paid for themselves did you?
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-26 08:03||   2020-05-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Er if it makes a loss it should be dropped.

Same with Marx-Faith studies degrees
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-26 08:03||   2020-05-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Just go ahead and start formal minor leagues for football and basketball and stop treating illiterates to free degrees.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-26 08:24||   2020-05-26 08:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Good. Cut away. To paraphrase a recent article, this crisis is just accelerating things that were already in motion. And NCAA football...what a racket.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-26 09:06||   2020-05-26 09:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Let them run for profit sports camps.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 09:13||   2020-05-26 09:13|| Front Page Top

#14 It will be fun to watch college sports boosters and forever quarantine nuts wandering around in circles muttering to themselves.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 09:24||   2020-05-26 09:24|| Front Page Top

#15 The biggest and best football programs are profit centers. Their universities use them to fund the expensive campus recreational and athletic facilities used by tens of thousands of ordinary students who don't play competitive sports.

What will likely happen is that football + women's sports will survive and maybe even thrive. But those men's sports that are not revenue-generating will be whacked. Say goodbye to some/all of: men's rowing, water polo, lacrosse, wrestling, gymnastics, fencing etc.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-26 11:37||   2020-05-26 11:37|| Front Page Top

#16 And just let the bassetbaw playas go pro when they are 16, it's then to 25 when they are in their prime.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 15:20||   2020-05-26 15:20|| Front Page Top

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