My personal opinion, the first thing we should do is a complete ban on all “professional” and/or spectator sport in any and all educational institution.
You can still have classes teaching sports but no spectators and definitely no “college spirit” nonsense.
It doesn’t matter to me if these sports generate more revenue than it costs.
It is a distraction that we don’t need.
If people want to participate in spectator sport, there are other places for it.
My justification is the same as that Google uses to kill projects.
There might be a project at Google that makes a hundred million dollars of “pure profit”. However, if it takes even equivalent of a month of time and attention of the executive leadership team and the board every year, it is decidedly not worth doing and must be scrapped.
Similarly, it doesn’t matter to me how much money sports and other such distractions make. If it takes time and attention of the management and or the board of regents, it must be scrapped.
Educational institutions exist for education.
Cut it all out!
It doesn’t matter to me if these sports generate more revenue than it costs. It is a distraction that we don’t need. If people want to participate in spectator sport, there are other places for it.
My justification is the same as that Google uses to kill projects. There might be a project at Google that makes a hundred million dollars of “pure profit”. However, if it takes even equivalent of a month of time and attention of the executive leadership team and the board every year, it is decidedly not worth doing and must be scrapped.
Similarly, it doesn’t matter to me how much money sports and other such distractions make. If it takes time and attention of the management and or the board of regents, it must be scrapped. Educational institutions exist for education. Cut it all out!