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Originally Posted by molson
Bigger and "more relevant" athletic programs don't have to always be the ultimate goal of universities. There was a time around the Sandusky stuff where it seemed like everyone - especially public universities - were going to settle down a little bit with the sports worship but that didn't happen. So maybe the Catholic schools want to do their own thing and play basketball against each other. Good for them. The identity of Georgetown and Villanova and the rest doesn't necessarily have to be desperately clinging to the coattails of whatever bigger athletic programs than they associate with. Maybe they can just be good academic institutions with a basketball tradition, that's not the end of the world.
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I went to a non-competitive Division III school. There really isn't anything wrong with a university whose main function isn't to host a minor-league football team.
Sure, it would have been cool to get together with 70,000 of my closest friends on Saturday afternoons. Or to cheer a Sweet Sixteen run from on campus.
But there is a LOT of bullshit that you don't have to deal with when big time sports are not driving the entire show.