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Subject: Re: disappointing upcoming Ivy basketball season

Author:
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Date Posted: 09:38:44 06/26/24 Wed
In reply to: Tiger69 's message, "Re: disappointing upcoming Ivy basketball season" on 23:35:40 06/25/24 Tue

Recent events (including Students for Fair Admission v Harvard) suggest that pure merit-based academic excellence is far from the mission of most Ivy schools these days.

Stanford, Duke, Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, UCLA and many other schools with strong athletics continue to rise in both national rankings and desirability among college-bound youth and hiring employers, despite these institutions participating in "big-time" sports.

The idea that being good in sports is somehow antithetical to being a quality educational institution is false, and always has been.

It also smacks of racism, as the two sports most likely to be sacrificed on the altar of "no professionalism" are basketball and football - both of which have many more black athletes (by percentage, and gross totals) competing nationally than fencing, squash, rowing, skiing, sailing, equestrian, rugby, archery, tennis, lacrosse, ice hockey and field hockey combined.

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Date Posted: 13:10:18 06/26/24 Wed

You are equating "strong athletics" - which I don't see anyone here objecting to - to participation in pro sports development and an ever escalating, probably unwinnable, financial battle with schools that prioitize sports over education. How many more stories do you need to see about college athletes being expected to stay out of academic programs that interfere with their sport before you accept this reality? Or do you just not care about it?

Athletic excellence can exist outside the confines of pro sport preparation. I salute players who can pursue sports and education at the same time. I do not support our schools becoming post-grad IMG academies.