Reply #34: I worked at a university hospital years ago

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and it was a large facility, a teaching hospital.

I was appalled to find out its budget was about 10% less than the budget for the school's football team!

It wasn't even a good football team. They were perennial losers.

Academic institutions need to drop sports. Pro sports would be better served by state sports institutions, schools that would teach athletes what they needed to know to be public school coaches or, if they made it to the pros, how to manage their money.

Universities would be far different places if they were able to get out from under that rah-rah burden of football teams.