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According to this NY Times article, the court sounds likely to allow payments to players.  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/su...-ncaa.html



That would be the fairest outcome, as far as I'm concerned.  And if Stanford decides to die on the "amateur sports or nothing" hill, that's fine, too.  It's possible to be a great university and not have sports.

Can you name one?

As mentioned earlier, even CalTech has some competitive sports.  But perhaps the poster meant that it is possible to be a great university and not offer sports where athletes are recruited.  Pretty much every graduate school operates on that principle.  The University of Chicago got out of the business of anything beyond recreational sports in 1939, when they left the Big Ten.  Intercollegiate athletics in pretty much every country outside the US doesn't involve trying to attract students for their recruiting prowess.

But yeah, even the most non-competitive schools will have intramural and club sports with friendly intra- and inter-collegiate competition, and that's a good thing.  Whether big money sports as currently played in the NCAA is a good thing is a fair question.  Until recently, I would have thought absolutely; now, I'm not so sure.

BC

[BostonCard]

According to this NY Times article, the court sounds likely to allow payments to players.  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/su...-ncaa.html



That would be the fairest outcome, as far as I'm concerned.  And if Stanford decides to die on the "amateur sports or nothing" hill, that's fine, too.  It's possible to be a great university and not have sports.

Can you name one?

As mentioned earlier, even CalTech has some competitive sports.  But perhaps the poster meant that it is possible to be a great university and not offer sports where athletes are recruited.  Pretty much every graduate school operates on that principle.  The University of Chicago got out of the business of anything beyond recreational sports in 1939, when they left the Big Ten.  Intercollegiate athletics in pretty much every country outside the US doesn't involve trying to attract students for their recruiting prowess.

But yeah, even the most non-competitive schools will have intramural and club sports with friendly intra- and inter-collegiate competition, and that's a good thing.  Whether big money sports as currently played in the NCAA is a good thing is a fair question.  Until recently, I would have thought absolutely; now, I'm not so sure.

BC