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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by bilbo0s on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:11PM (#36792488)
Because money.

Sorry. That's the reality that everyone fails to talk openly about when discussing athletics. It brings in a lot of money for the top schools like Stanford, Michigan, Texas, Alabama and so on. You find a way to replace that revenue, a lot of schools would be happy to get rid of it. But until then?

I mean the B1G has a tv split of almost 100 million a year "per". Once all the former PAC12 schools unite with the B1G, that amount will be even larger.

All that to say this, no one is throwing away 100 million a year. Maybe the elite schools you can get to stop athletic admissions? But that 2nd tier of state flagships that are taking all that in? I'm not sure they would go down without an epic fight.

Now of course, we can question whether or not you need a men's baseball team to bring that money in? You probably don't. But they will all probably fight tooth and nail to keep football and basketball.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by xdennis on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:35PM (#36792873)
But they're already filthy rich. Maybe I'm being too much of an idealist, but universities should be about education, not sport centers.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by vacuity on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:19PM (#36822211)
Too late now. Profits are more important. Maybe the people who benefit don't even understand where you're coming from because they're so greedy. Doesn't excuse them for it, though.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by TechBro8615 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:34PM (#36793772)
At some schools I'm quite sure that graduating athletes also end up making more money than their non-athletic counterparts, which - even ignoring the "big sports" aspect of it - makes them more likely to become future donors to the university.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by belorn on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:44PM (#36793901)
Maybe they should open up a casino instead. That would bring in a lot more money without needing to the through hoops of using sports teams to finance higher education.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by bilbo0s on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:25PM (#36795831)
Too expensive.

For Villanova, a basketball team costs next to nothing. And requires very little admin. A casino costs millions. And requires literally orders of magnitude more admin.

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