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Remind me again why being relevant in squash is important?

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/wh...mwhatsnews

I only pick on squash because I actually played for a while after Stanford.  It's a great sport, but do we really need to be giving partial scholarships and preferential admission to a sport where 90% of the top players went to private schools (at least the ones who went to play squash in the Ivy League, and I have little reason to expect it is different at Stanford)? 

Most, if not all, will probably come from private high schools. Across the Ivy League, nearly 90% of the players on squash rosters who went to high school in the U.S. attended institutions with fees that start at around $30,000, according to a Wall Street Journal tally taken from rosters on university websites.

The demographics of most of the aptly named "country club" sports skew wealthy and White.  We really should think long and hard about what we are actually saving by forcing our teams to fly cross country to compete, and whether it is worth it.

I think we lost the plot.

BC

[BostonCard]

Remind me again why being relevant in squash is important?

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/wh...mwhatsnews

I only pick on squash because I actually played for a while after Stanford.  It's a great sport, but do we really need to be giving partial scholarships and preferential admission to a sport where 90% of the top players went to private schools (at least the ones who went to play squash in the Ivy League, and I have little reason to expect it is different at Stanford)? 

Most, if not all, will probably come from private high schools. Across the Ivy League, nearly 90% of the players on squash rosters who went to high school in the U.S. attended institutions with fees that start at around $30,000, according to a Wall Street Journal tally taken from rosters on university websites.

The demographics of most of the aptly named "country club" sports skew wealthy and White.  We really should think long and hard about what we are actually saving by forcing our teams to fly cross country to compete, and whether it is worth it.

I think we lost the plot.

BC