It’s true that athletes in NESCAC are a bigger deal than within the Quaker schools. NESCAC has done a better job at branding their conference games (“the biggest little game in America”; “the battle of the birds”; “the Maine games”; etc…); they have a greater number of the traditional male “helmet sports” (football, wrestling, lacrosse, etc…) And, let’s face it, they rely very heavily on prepping them (the guys, especially) for jobs on Wall Street (@cquin85 does an excellent job of describing how that works at Wesleyan, probably the least sports focused of the NESCACs: What companies recruit from Wesleyan University? - #3 by cquin85)
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