<p>people always forget that colleges are businesses, and if a student is more likely to make them money through their sports performance then they will be accepted more easily</p>
<p>Soccer: Northwestern (#2 goalie in the country)
Swimming: Brown, BU
Rowing: Stanford, USNA
Track: UCSB (DI?), Vanderbilt
Tennis: Delaware, Penn</p>
<p>We had a pretty damn good year for recruiting--esp. DI, although we had a good amount for DIII (one basketball, track at WashU and most notably tennis @ UChicago. Kid is top 150 best tennis players in the country).</p>
<p>We had two DI for basketball last year--Temple and St. Joe's. Pretty damn good for a public school. (BTW, extremely smart and well-rounded students far exceed the total recruited for DI)</p>
<p>"people always forget that colleges are businesses, and if a student is more likely to make them money through their sports performance then they will be accepted more easily"</p>
<p>That is what I disputed and provided Stanford finances. Stanford makes most money thru research and so according to that it should distributes more money to those who do research and that is a simple business sense.</p>
<p>"People who play college sports do well in life on the whole. The motivation and discipline it takes to succeed in sports serves the well in all sorts of goals."</p>
<p>I never said that there should not be university sports. I represented my elementary school thru my university in sports and it was fun. I'm all for sports at university but as an amateur activity and not a main stream activity.</p>
<p>What exactly is a 'main stream' activity?</p>
<p>"Please get your facts straight. Following is the link to Stanford finances
[urlhttp://<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/facts/finances.html%5B/url%5D">www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/facts/finances.html</a></p>
<p>The maximum revenues comes from research
Sources of Funds for FY 2006-2007
33% sponsored research
18% endowment income
4% other investment income" </p>
<p>WOW...maybe you should have actually read your own link....funds from university research DO NOT match salary paid to professors. As an example, the profit margin for D1 football teams is often UPWARDS OF 60%, and some D1 bball teams run profit margins of OVER 75% (Stanford had a #1 ranking not too long ago), which is sound financial return (obvious understatement). Perhaps you should check your own facts.</p>
<p>Edit: I see you are putting forward the "truth" due to "Karl's figures." Good thing no one is paying you for sponsored research.</p>
<p>anyone here has any idea which uni is weak in a certain sports? :)</p>