Bad take with no argument to justify it.
Sports are good for universities. Monetarily it’s easy to see why, but it’s also academically good too. Having sports teams builds a sense of community for the school that will bolster fraternizing between otherwise separate groups of people. This leads to students forming broader webs of connections than they otherwise would, which gives better outcomes after graduation since they know more things about more of the world, which is the point of going to a university.
Well that’s news to all the universities outside the US who manage to cope with just educating people and not needing 100,000 seater stadiums. People fraternise on their own. They don’t need enormous sports budgets to do it.
Our sports culture in the US is unlike any other country in the world and so comparing it to other countries is a pointless endeavor.
In fact pretty much all schools in the US all the way down to the smallest college field sports teams because it’s essential in advertising and marketing the school and recruiting students (either by recruiting students who are familiar with and fans of the sports team and the larger schools or by recruiting students who still want to compete in organized sports for the smaller schools)
Sports coaches are often compensated the most and athletes often get the most valuable scholarships because they generate the most marketing and advertising value and in cases of the highest level teams, make TV revenue back for the university.
If you want to put your complaints somewhere, complain about how public universities have to compete with each other for lucrative out of state and international students to meet their budgets because they are underfunded from the government.
But culturally, in the US, sports are how (a plurality of) people fraternize. Even our most prestigious universities, like the world-famous Harvard, has a football team.
Yeah, and as someone raised in Europe where education is actually valued, I think that’s dumb. Education institutions should be there to educate, not to entertain
So you don’t have drinking and fucking or looking down on the poors to bond over?
Is this backed by research? Assuming any if these things are true, are there any other/better/cheaper ways to get these same results?
I am still in university, and don’t play sports, and am glad that my school participates in NCAA sports
I suppose I’m biased as I have never had any interest whatsoever in things such as soccer (football for you freedom haters), basketball, golf, etc etc. Just don’t give a fuck about them. They’re used as the circus part of the bread and circuses in todays world. I mean, look at FIFA. Dumbfucks buy that every year or two cuz they love that corporate slop because “hurrduur f00tball”. Like if you want to play football… go play it in person. Why are you doing it in a video game :|
