[Mick]

No one is banning club sports. During my time at Stanford, women's rugby, women's club soccer, and ultimate frisbee were all very popular and relatively well attended by friends and fans. It's not like D1 sports with scholarships is the only way to preserve athletics as part of college life...

Or in the case of the Ivies, sports without scholarships.

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I don't think the university wants 880 undergrad spots taken up by athletes anymore, either.

Perhaps.  Eliminating athletics from college life would eradicate a fair amount of the social fabric of the collegiate experience.  I would support that argument if we eliminate the rest of collegiate life outside of classes; e.g., student government, clubs, fraternities, sororities, dormitories, bands, music, parties, and all other social elements.  If you really want to provide access to the poor, drop the cost by 85%, go fully online with the best professors teaching specific classes, eliminate non-STEM classes, hire professors at second tier universities to moderate pods of students and grade papers.  If we eliminate athletics, let's just eliminate the rest of it, shall we?

Who said anything about eliminating athletics? This will lower that 880 number to about 660. The administration will probably find that number more palatable.

It's a legitimate question, particularly when 11 of 36 sports were eliminated.  Why stop there?

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Especially in a sport like crew.  In fact I remember crew recruiting my freshman year and saying that previous crew experience was not necessary (just a desire to wake up at ungodly hours in the morning).

BC

My roommate rowed on SCU's lightweight crew that rowed at the Henley in the early 1980s.  That SoB got up at 5 a.m. every day to run dam faces at Lexington reservoir...

[Mick]

No one is banning club sports. During my time at Stanford, women's rugby, women's club soccer, and ultimate frisbee were all very popular and relatively well attended by friends and fans. It's not like D1 sports with scholarships is the only way to preserve athletics as part of college life...

Or in the case of the Ivies, sports without scholarships.

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I don't think the university wants 880 undergrad spots taken up by athletes anymore, either.

Perhaps.  Eliminating athletics from college life would eradicate a fair amount of the social fabric of the collegiate experience.  I would support that argument if we eliminate the rest of collegiate life outside of classes; e.g., student government, clubs, fraternities, sororities, dormitories, bands, music, parties, and all other social elements.  If you really want to provide access to the poor, drop the cost by 85%, go fully online with the best professors teaching specific classes, eliminate non-STEM classes, hire professors at second tier universities to moderate pods of students and grade papers.  If we eliminate athletics, let's just eliminate the rest of it, shall we?

Who said anything about eliminating athletics? This will lower that 880 number to about 660. The administration will probably find that number more palatable.

It's a legitimate question, particularly when 11 of 36 sports were eliminated.  Why stop there?

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Especially in a sport like crew.  In fact I remember crew recruiting my freshman year and saying that previous crew experience was not necessary (just a desire to wake up at ungodly hours in the morning).

BC

My roommate rowed on SCU's lightweight crew that rowed at the Henley in the early 1980s.  That SoB got up at 5 a.m. every day to run dam faces at Lexington reservoir...