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Yeah universities should be about academics. Not sports. In fact, Universities, in my opinion, should just be banned from HAVING sports teams. Do that shit outside of school lmao. You shouldn't be getting ACADEMIC scholarships because you can... "throw ball good".
You can just say you're mad because you didn't have a chance in hell to get an athletic scholarship, it's OK. I didn't either, but everyone deserves higher education. It's not like there's less education to go around because athletes got academic scholarships. You can still be happy that more people are getting educations while still disagreeing with having collegiate sports franchises.
I'm not sure if I remember correctly but don't most athletic programs not pay for themselves? Don't they require a portion of the tuition from non athletics students to continue functioning and in that case wouldn't it mean that there is in fact less education happening due to the athletic program?
https://www.goacta.org/news-item/most_ncaa_division_i_athletic_departments_take_subsidies/
https://www.knightcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/jones.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/01/13/power-five-universities-spend-much-more-per-athlete-than-for-other-students-finds-new-study/
Just because a portion of funding doesn't make it back to the classroom for other students, a university is more than its academics. And the gyms and training centers built for the athletic program can often be used by other students at schools where the athletic program isn't popular enough to pay for itself.
And gyms could still be built for student use using significantly less leeching on the students. I know that because my university had quality gyms and no sports teams outside of intramural.